Project Outcomes

Publications

2012 – 2015

Anita Herle., Jude Philp, & Jocelyn Dudding. 2015: Reactivating visual histories:
Haddon’s photographs from Mabuyag 1888, 1898. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Culture 8 (1):255-290. Brisbane. ISSN 1440-4788.

Jane Lydon (ed) Calling the Shots: Aboriginal Photographies (Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014). For more information regarding this publication go to AIATSIS article.

Christopher Morton (forthcoming) ‘The ancestral image in the present tense’, Photographies (special issue: Reasserting presence: reclamation, recognition and photographic desire, edited by Haidy Geismar and Christopher Morton).

Christopher Morton. 2014    ‘Reconnecting and researching Australian Aboriginal photographs’, The Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Newsletter, Issue 79, p5.

Christopher Morton. 2012    ‘Spiritual repatriation and the archive in Christian Thompson’s We Bury Our Own’, in Christian Thompson – We Bury Our Own (exhibition catalogue). Fitzroy: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, pp13-15.

2016 –

Jane Lydon, 2016 Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire. Bloomsbury, London.

Jane Lydon, 2016 ‘Transmuting the Australian Aboriginal Photographic Archive’, World Art 6(1): 45-60.

Jane Lydon, 2018 (ed.) Visualising Human Rights (UWAP, Perth)

Jane Lydon and Angela Wanhalla, eds, Special issue Indigenous Photographies, History of Photography. (and 2019 (with Angela Wanhalla, Editorial) ‘Indigenous Photographies’, History of Photography, 42:3, 213-216, (online 14/1/2019))

Jane Lydon, 2019 ‘Photography and Critical Heritage: Australian Aboriginal Photographic Archives and the Stolen Generations,’ Special issue on Critical Heritage, edited by Jon Daehnke and Amy Lonetree. The Public Historian, 41 (1): 18-33.

Christopher Morton, 2021  ‘Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging’. In Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value, edited by Howard Morphy and Robyn Mackenzie, Routledge, 2021.

Jane Lydon, 2021 (with Donna Oxenham) “‘The best day for me, looking at these old photos’: Returning photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.” In Adjusting the Lens: Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies, and Photographic Heritage, edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielsson, University of British Columbia Press, 2021.

Jane Lydon, 2021, ‘Indigenous Uses of Photographic Digital Heritage in Postcolonizing Australia,’ Photography and Culture,

 

Background

This work also builds on an earlier project, the 2008-2011 Aboriginal Visual Histories [LINK to Monash site], an Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project (DP 0878567)

Some major results from this project were published in:

Jane Lydon (ed) Calling the Shots: Aboriginal Photographies (Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014). For more information regarding this publication go to AIATSIS article.

 

Further Reading

Roslyn Poignant with Axel Poignant, Encounter at Nagalarramba (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1996)

Jane Lydon, Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians (Duke University Press, 2006).

Jane Lydon (ed) Calling the Shots: Aboriginal Photographies (Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014)

Michael Aird, Portraits of Our Elders (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1993)

Michael Aird, Brisbane Blacks (Southport, Keeaira Press, 2001)

Heather Goodall, ‘“Karroo: Mates” – Communities reclaim their images’, Aboriginal History, vol. 30, 2006, 48–66.

Jennifer Deger, Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).

Nicolas Peterson, ‘Visual Knowledge: Spencer and Gillen’s use of photography in The Native Tribes of Central Australia’, Australian Aboriginal Studies 2006 (1): 12-22.

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Background

This work also builds on an earlier project, the 2008-2011 Aboriginal Visual Histories [LINK to Monash site], an Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project (DP 0878567)

Some major results from this project were published in:

Jane Lydon (ed) Calling the Shots: Aboriginal Photographies (Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014). For more information regarding this publication go to AIATSIS article.