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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780654803321

Autore

Quanchi Max

Titolo

Photographing Papua : representation, colonial encounters and imaging in the public domain / / Max Quanchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2007

ISBN

1-282-19057-1

9786612190575

1-4438-0674-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 369 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

778.9/9953

Soggetti

Papuans - Papua New Guinea - History

Ethnology - Papua New Guinea

Photography in ethnology - Papua New Guinea

Photography in historiography

Photography - Papua New Guinea - History

Documentary photography - Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea History

Papua New Guinea Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-359) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Images, intentions and meanings -- pt. III. Images and dissemination.

Sommario/riassunto

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...