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Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (Photography, History: History, Photography)

Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (Photography, History: History, Photography)

by JaneLydon (Author)

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    Hardcover 2016

    $141.51
Synopsis

With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Focusing on Australian experience in a global context, a rich selection of case studies - drawing on a range of visual genres, from portraiture to ethnographic to scientific photographs - show how photographic encounters between Aboriginals, missionaries, scientists, photographers and writers fuelled international debates about morality, law, politics and human rights. Drawing on new archival research, Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire is essential reading for students and scholars of race, visuality and the histories of empire and human rights.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 204
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 14 Jul 2016
ISBN 10: 1474235506
ISBN 13: 9781474235501
Book Overview: A study of how photography shaped ideas about Aboriginal peoples and influenced changing notions of humanitarianism and colonialism in the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries.

Media Reviews
A significant contribution to the history of humanitarianism, combining valuable descriptions of imagery with a careful analysis of the contexts in which photographs of Indigenous Australians were produced and used. * Johannes Paulmann, Director, Leibniz Institute of European History, Germany *
Historically situated yet framed within contemporary debates about human rights, Lydon challenges us to reconsider the photographic archive of colonialism and its legacy. Richly illustrated, and using a diverse range of little analysed source material from the 1840s to the 1950s, Lydon also importantly draws attention to the ethical issues that the research and use of these materials entails. * Gaye Sculthorpe, Curator, Oceania, The British Museum, UK *
Lydon presents her argument through clear and concise cases ... She carefully intersperses visual and cultural theories throughout the text in an amount that offers critical perspective without losing the narrative thread of the argument. The publication is also richly illustrated with archival photographs. * Visual Studies *
Jane Lydon is one of Australia's leading scholars of photographic history. To date she has produced an outstanding body of scholarship on colonialism and visual culture that has identified the various ways photography has been utilized as a tool of colonial oppression * The Journal of Pacific History *
Author Bio
Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia