Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:30:33 +1300
Subject: Re: post/photo and Australian Aboriginality


Another useful reference, especially for photographers, is:

Eric Michaels, 'A Primer of Restrictions on Picture-Taking in Traditional
Areas of Aboriginal Australia' reprinted in

Eric Michaels, "Bad Aboriginal Art : Tradition, Media, and Technological
Horizons" (Theory Out of Bounds, Vol 3). Minnesota: University of Minnesota
Press, 1996 [don't have the ISBN handy, sorry].

Pretty great bk all round on media/representation/authenticity/ownership...

Danny

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Danny Butt
GDV Publishing Ltd.


> Dear Philippe:
>
> Two books which take up these issues in the Australian context and also
> provide critical accounts of the practice of anthropological photography
> are:
>
> Roslyn Poignant with Axel Poignant, Encounter at Nagalarramba. Canberra:
> National Library of Australia, 1996 [ISBN 0 642 10665 7]
>
> Judith Proctor Wiseman, ThomsonTime: Arnhem Land in the 1930s -- A
> Photographic Essay. Melbourne: University of Melbourne/Musuem of
> Victoria, 1996 [ISBN 0 7306 2509 5].
>
> For an interesting account of how photographs taken as part of the
> anthropological project of documenting native peoples can be reprised by
> those people and used for different purposes see:
>
> Heather Goodall, 'Working with History: Experiments in Aboriginal
> History and Hypermedia' UTS Review, 2.1 (1996): 43-57.
>
> It strikes me as I put this post together that list members may be
> interested to read more about postcolonial issues as they play out in
> Australia and in relation to indigenous issues here.  Over the last few
> year, colleagues and I have prepared large review essays on Aboriginal
> identity, art and culture for the English publication Year's Work in
> Critical and Cultural Theory (Blackwell) which may privde a useful entry
> point for readers new to the field. The takeup of the publication in
> Australian libraries appears quite slight and we are not sure what kind
> of audience the essays have found elsewhere.
>
> Please see:
>
> Denise Cuthbert and Michele Grossman. 'Aboriginal Identity, Art and
> Culture' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 4 (1997): 281-316.
>
>
> --------------------. 'Aboriginal Identity, Art and Culture' Year's Work
> in Critical and Cultural Theory 5 (1998):304-368.
>
>
> -------------------- and Stephen Pritchard. 'Aboriginal Identity, Art
> and Culture' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 6 (1999):
> 251-314 (should be out in February).
>
>
> Denise Cuthbert
> Director, Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research
> Monash University
> Melbourne, Australia
>
>
>
>
>
> philippe j alexandre wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>> Much has been said and written about the photography of National
>> Geographic. I am interested in "postcolonial" photography, meaning how to
>> bridge the gap between National Geo. photography and Native photo.? If you
>> could help me with books, articles etc...I really would appreciated. The
>> only theory that I am aware of is from Susan Sontag and Trinh t.Minh ha.
>> Help???
>>
>> Philippe
>>
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