Photographing Papua : Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public Domain
ISBN: 9781443806749
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Fine Arts; History;

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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