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Inside Tracks : Robyn Davidson's solo journey across the Outback /
At once the story of a twenty-seven-year-old Australian woman who sets off to cross the desolute Western Australia desert with her camels and dog; a fascinating pictorial journal by photographer Rick Smolan, taken while photographing her journey; and an inside look at the images and screenplay of the extraordinary movie based on the now-famous trek.
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Calling the shots : aboriginal photographies
Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were produced in unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants, who see them in distinctive and positive ways. Calling the shots brings together researchers who are using this rich archive to explore Aboriginal history, to identify relatives, and to reclaim culture. It reverses the colonial gaze to focus on the interactions between photographer and Indigenous people - and the living meanings the photos have today. The result is a fresh perspective on Australia's past, and on present-day Indigenous identities.
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Black and proud : the story of an iconic AFL photo
On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, \"I'm black and I'm proud to be black.\" The moment was immortalized by photographers Wayne Ludbey and John Feder and forced Australian football and its fans to confront deeply held prejudices. This chronicle documents the events that led to that pivotal moment, narrating the stories of the players and photographers and their experiences in the lead-up to and aftermath of the match. This is a fascinating, thought-provoking account of the interrelation between sport and race in Australia and is essential reading for any sports enthusiast or student of Australian history.
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Encounter at Nagalarramba
Review(s) of: Encounter at Nagalarramba, by Roslyn Poignant with Axel Poignant, 170 pp, Text and Black and White Photographs, National Library of Australia, Canberra 1996 $29.95, ISBN: 0 642 10665 7.
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Calling the Shots: Aboriginal Photographies
In reference to Frederick Bonney,1 who recorded the names and relationships of people he photographed on Momba station in the late 19th century, Cumpston says, Bonney's photographs don't give me a cold, sad feeling like almost all other early photos of Aboriginal people I have seen ... these people are not lost, they are not ghosts, or continually passively posing in a way that foregrounds unequal power relationships - we can place them, watch them living in their time, we can know who they are, we can claim them and with them a part of ourselves, our culture and our survival (p. 72). Today, photography is more accessible and there are many Aboriginal people, especially senior women, featured in the book who incorporate treasured photographic collections into their oral storytelling practices. Emmeline Tyler The Australian National University 1 For his photographs see a work not cited in Jane Lydon's book, Jeanette Hope and Robert Lindsay, The People of the Paroo River: Frederic Bonney's Phoiographs,.Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, Sydney, 2011.
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