Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians

by Jane Lydon

Book Overview

An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned many photographs of its Aboriginal residents. The photographs taken at Coranderrk Station circulated across the western world; they were mounted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335727
• ISBN13: 9780822335726
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 10.0"