Book chapter
Re-historicising the Image: Photographic Reclamations and Re-imaginings by Indigenous Australian Artists
Reproducing Images and Texts / La reproduction des images et des textes, pp.371-382
Word and Image Interactions, 10, Brill
2022
Abstract
This paper argues that the fundamental tension between perceptions of photographs as objective documentary records inextricably connected with traces of time and place, and the capacity of photographs to be manipulated, re-imagined, and to take on new context-related meanings can be employed to interrogate colonial constructions of history in settler nations. This paper examines how these ideas have been manifested in works by two Indigenous Australian artists who have employed this transferability of meaning to reclaim or re-imagine colonial images of Aboriginal Australians to comment on aspects of history, race and identity—past and present.
Details
- Title
- Re-historicising the Image: Photographic Reclamations and Re-imaginings by Indigenous Australian Artists
- Authors
- Lisa Chandler (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Publication details
- Reproducing Images and Texts / La reproduction des images et des textes, pp.371-382
- Series
- Word and Image Interactions; 10
- Publisher
- Brill
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.1163/9789004468337_025; 10.1163/9789004468337
- ISBN
- 9789004468320
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; School of Creative Industries - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Centre
- Language
- English; French
- Record Identifier
- 99595708602621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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