Essays on the History of Photography in the Pacific Islands

Imaging and Imagining

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book investigates the histories of photography, photographers and the camera in the Pacific, and the parallel histories of colonial expansion, colonies, territories and Empires, and decolonisation from the 1830s through to the 1960s. It looks at albums, postcards, portraits, colonial handbooks, illustrated newspapers and magazines, serialised pictorial encyclopaedia, and illustrated books, and how published black and white photography documented a place, people and their cultures. The material ranges across the early years of the camera in the Pacific, to the colonial era, and through to today's increasingly prolific mobile phone photography. Most of the argument, insight and data is from so-called old photographs, but reference to the present underpins the discussions on how photographs have been used in historiography over the two hundred years following the invention of the camera. Four essays focus on Papua New Guinea, two on Fiji, and one on American possessions in the Pacific, one each on pictorial encyclopaedia, colonial handbooks, illustrated magazines, and illustrated books, two on postcards, and three on photography generally in Oceania.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-01
Mått:148 x 212 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:334
Förlag:Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN:9781036472924

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Max Quanchi (TPTC, BAHons, MA, PhD) taught Pacific History at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. His research is on the history of photography in the Pacific. He was guest editor for special issues on photography for Pacific Studies (1997), the Journal of Pacific History (2007) and the Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies (2020-2021) and since 1996 has convened panels on photography at the biannual Pacific History Association conferences. In 2007, his monograph Photographing Papua focused on the colonial frontier in Papua New Guinea. His recent books include Postcards from Oceania; Plantations, Pirogues and Port Towns with Max Shekleton (2015), Postcards from Colonial Fiji with Max Shekleton (2019), Tales from the Sak sak: Doing Nasho in New Guinea (2020), Glorious Company; The Polynesia Company in Fiji and Melbourne (2022) and Thomas McMahon's search for fame; Photographer, Journalist, Patriot (2024). Articles since the 1990s on the history of photography appear in the journals History of Photography, History Focus, Pacific Arts, Journal of Pacific Studies, and Agora, amongst others.