Photography's Other Histories

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: "How the Other Half." / Christopher Pinney 1

1. Personal Archives

Relating to Photographs / Jo-Anne Driessens 17

Growing Up with Aborigines / Michael Aird 23

When Is a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words? / Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie 40

2. Visual Economies

The Making of Professional "Savages": From P.T. Barnam (1883) to the Sunday Times (1998) / Roslyn Poignant 55

Navajo and Photography / James Faris 85

The Japanese Colonial Eye: Science, Exploration, and Empire / Morris Law 100

The Changing Photographic Contract: Aborigines and Image Ethics / Nicolas Peterson 119

Supple Bodies: The Papua New Guinea Photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899-1907 / Christopher Wright 146

3. Self-Fashioning and Vernacular Modernism

Figueroa Anznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: Photography and Modernism in Early-Twentieth Century Peru / Deborah Poole 173

Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism / Christopher Pinney 202

Imagined Journeys: The Likoni Ferry Photographers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend 221

Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves / Stephen Sprague 240

Works Cited 261

Contributors 277

Index 279