Photography's Other Histories

Christopher Pinney is Reader in Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London. He is author of Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs and coeditor of Pleasure and the Nation and Beyond Aesthetics.Nicolas Peterson is Reader in Anthropology at the Australian National University. He is coeditor of Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities.

"Photography's Other Histories is an extremely interesting and important volume. It challenges both the canonical view of photographic value and importance and, in its cross-cultural concerns, the centrality of Euro-American theoretical constructs of photography. Throughout, the collection successfully argues for a reorientation in the critical debate." -Elizabeth Edwards, Curator of Photographs and Lecturer in Visual Anthropology, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford “Photography's Other Histories is a quite remarkable collection of essays on widely ranging photographic practices around the world. In its attention to local cultural inflections to a global technology, to the recuperation of colonial images by their latterday Fourth World subjects, and to the provocative antirealist aesthetics characterizing much postcolonial photography, this volume marks a watershed in both art history, anthropology, and cultural studies.“-Lucien Taylor, The Film Study Center, Harvard University

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: “How the Other Half . . .” / Christopher Pinney 11. Personal Archives Relating to Photographs / Jo-Anne Driessens 17Growing Up with Aborigines / Michael Aird 23When Is a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words? / Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie 402. Visual Economies The Making of Professional “Savages”: From P.T. Barnam (1883) to the Sunday Times (1998) / Roslyn Poignant 55Navajo and Photography / James Faris 85The Japanese Colonial Eye: Science, Exploration, and Empire / Morris Law 100The Changing Photographic Contract: Aborigines and Image Ethics / Nicolas Peterson 119Supple Bodies: The Papua New Guinea Photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899–1907 / Christopher Wright 1463. Self-Fashioning and Vernacular Modernism Figueroa Anznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: Photography and Modernism in Early-Twentieth Century Peru / Deborah Poole 173Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism / Christopher Pinney 202Imagined Journeys: The Likoni Ferry Photographers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend 221Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves / Stephen Sprague 240Works Cited 261Contributors 277Index 279