Photographing Papua : Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public Domain.

By: Quanchi, MaxMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (389 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781443806749Subject(s): Documentary photography -- Papua New Guinea | Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea -- History | Papuans -- Papua New Guinea -- History | Photography -- Papua New Guinea -- History | Photography in ethnology -- Papua New Guinea | Photography in historiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Photographing Papua : Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public DomainDDC classification: 778.9/9953 LOC classification: DU740.7 -- .Q36 2007ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- PART II -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- PART III -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual representation in illustrated magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and postcards. Readers :knew" Papua because many tho...
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- PART II -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- PART III -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual representation in illustrated magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and postcards. Readers :knew" Papua because many tho...

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