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Adjusting the lens : Indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Call Number
07.2 L62a
Responsibility
Edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
vi, 312 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Art
Indigenous Photography
Politics
Heritage
Colonialism
Abstract
Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams ; Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adentures in Sami Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen ; Negotiating Meaning: John Moller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Hovik ; Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigenous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers ; Distruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greehorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson ; "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sami Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola ; The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander People by Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham ; On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Chrisitne Sy ; Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sami Political Community by Laura Junka-Aikio ; Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye ; Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery of Sapmi - Becoming a Nation at the Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stein ; Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
ISBN
9780774866613
Accession Number
P2022.04
Call Number
07.2 L62a
Collection
Archives Library
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