Laying ghosts to rest

Brenda Croft

doi:10.4324/9781315015262-2/laying-ghosts-rest-brenda-croft

Laying ghosts to rest

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Abstract

If context is all-important, it is usually out of reach. Place is an integral part of these images even when there is no landscape evident, even when there is “no there there,” since many of the locations are unrecorded, lost to us. So understanding nineteenth-century photographic portraits of Indigenous peoples of Oceania is a process of reaching out for what finally is absent, rather than grasping the presence of new “truths” and disseminating new “information.”

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Colonialist Photography: Imag(in)ing Race and Place.
Editors	Eleanor M. Hight, Gary D. Sampson
Place of Publication	London UK; New York, USA
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	20-29
Volume	1
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9781315015262
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315015262-2/laying-ghosts-rest-brenda-croft
Publication status	Published - 2002

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