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

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 repre...

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1. Verfasser: Quanchi, Max
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
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Zusammenfassung: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 ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 369 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-359) and index.
ISBN:1847182887
9781847182883
9781443806749
1443806749

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