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Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2011
When the US acquired its colonies of Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the aftermath of the 1898 war with Spain, those colonies had to be made known to American citizens.
Mark Rice
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spinifex scriptures [PDF]

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2020
“spinifex scriptures” and “desert analysis” deconstruct through poetry and photography the post-colonial presence of Christian armour, and environmental desert rust – recycled through the economical chambers of abandonment.
Yvette Holt
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Photography as Absence: Implicit Histories (Africa, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries)

open access: yesSources, 2023
Photographic material can sometimes pose an overwhelming and distorting presence, especially when it comes to the writing of history. Some of the first visual recordings of African social worlds via photography would long serve as a model for images of ...
Daniel Foliard
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Bagamoyo Imperial and Actual: Representation of the First Capital of German East Africa in Colonial Postcards and in the Works of Walter Dobbertin [PDF]

open access: yesУченые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2022
In recent decades, items of colonial photography, including those dedicated to German East Africa, have become the subject of research by historians and anthropologists.
BANSHCHIKOVA Anastasia Alexeevna
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From Model to Sitter

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2023
This paper focuses on historic anthropological photographs, meant to depict Indigenous individuals as generic models of colonial stereotypes, and examines their later reclamation as portraits.
Michelle Green, Hans Maes
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Le chercheur-photographe et ses images de terrain

open access: yesPhotographica, 2022
From the French Somali Coast (Djibouti) to French Guiana and from the Kerguelen Islands to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu), the geologist Edgar Aubert de la Rüe criss-crossed several little-known territories of the French colonial empire between the 1920s and 
Marie Durand, Anaïs Mauuarin
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Mengabadikan estetika Fotografi dalam promosi pariwisata kolonial di Hindia-Belanda

open access: yesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2008
When the first technology of photography came to the Netherlands-Indies in the nineteenth century, it was only used for government purposes and was not yet meant for public consumption.
Achmad Sunjayadi
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Port of call: The eyeline of the logistical image

open access: yesNECSUS, 2023
From the surface of the sea to a sea of data as a canvas of affective inscription, the port emerges as a calling card, constituted by the aggregate image of logistical media and its ‘looks’ and ‘likes’.
Stephen Turner
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The Brazilian woman: from the colonial photography to contemporary Portuguese photography

open access: yesComunicação e Sociedade, 2017
This study aims to carry out an initial analysis of how the Brazilian woman image is shaped by a discourse that is historically constructed and reinforced by colonial photography.
Lorena Travassos
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Excerpt from Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2016
Excerpt from Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines (University of Michigan Press, 2014)
Mark Rice
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