Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, this text breaks with the notion that... Show moreMoving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, this text breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the explosion of Western technology advanced by the work of singular individuals. Introduction: "How the other half ..." / Christopher Pinney -- 1. PERSONAL ARCHIVES -- Relating to photographs / Jo-Anne Driessens -- Growing up with aborigines / Michael Aird -- When is a photograph worth a thousand words? / Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie -- 2. VISUAL ECONOMIES -- The making of professional "savages": from P.T. Barnum (1883) to the Sunday Times (1998) / Roslyn Poignant -- Navajo and photography / James Faris -- The Japanese colonial eye: science, exploration, and empire / Morris Low -- The changing photographic contract: aborigines and image ethics / Nicolas Peterson -- Supple bodies: the Papua New Guinea photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899-1907 / Christopher Wright -- 3. SELF-FASHIONING AND VERNACULAR MODERNISM -- Figueroa Aznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: photography and modernism in early-twentieth-century Peru / Deborah Poole -- Notes from the surface of the image: photography, postcolonialism, and vernacular modernism / Christopher Pinney -- Imagined journeys: the Likoni Ferry photographers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend -- Yoruba photography: how the Yoruba see themselves / Stephen Sprague. edited by Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson. Main Heritage Compact General TR15 .P495 2003 Reference Item-ID: i24454813 BIB-ID: 2555440 Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and index. Show less