Adjusting the Lens
Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies, and Photographic Heritage
Published on 2. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7748-6661-3 (ISBN)
Description
Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. Through moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record.
The original research presented in Adjusting the Lens offers a transnational perspective on this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies. It is an exciting collection that challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation.
The original research presented in Adjusting the Lens offers a transnational perspective on this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies. It is an exciting collection that challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation.
Reviews / Votes
Perfectly timed and enormously significant, Adjusting the Lens illuminates the ways Indigenous art activists use photographs to challenge, realign, and renegotiate past histories...This book moves Indigenous art activism off the pages of Facebook and into the contemporary global art and cultural studies arena. - J. Natal, Columbia College Chicago (CHOICE)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
67 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-6661-3 (9780774866613)
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Persons
Sigrid Lien is a professor of art history at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is the author of Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration and coeditor, with Justin Carville, of Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the United States, among other works. She was also Norwegian team leader for the projects Photographs, Colonial Legacy, and Museums in Contemporary European Culture (PhotoCLEC, 2010-12), and Negotiating History: Photography in Sami Culture (2014-17). Hilde Wallem Nielssen is a professor of intercultural studies at NLA University College, Bergen, Norway. Among her publications is Ritual Imagination: A Study of Tromba Possession among the Betsimisaraka in Eastern Madagascar and, with Sigrid Lien, Museumsforteljingar. Vi og dei andre i kulturhistoriske museum (Museum Stories: We and the Others in Cultural History Exhibitions). Her work encompasses rituals and religious movements, missionary ethnography, museum exhibitions, and photography, in particular photographs from Sami areas.
Contributors: Elizabeth Edwards, Beth Greenhor, Ingeborg Hovik, Piita Irniq, Laura Junka-Aikio, Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Jane Lydon, Donna Oxenham, Carol Payne, Laura Peers, Mette Sandbye, Hanne Hammer Stien, waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, Carol Williams, Christina Williamson
Contributors: Elizabeth Edwards, Beth Greenhor, Ingeborg Hovik, Piita Irniq, Laura Junka-Aikio, Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Jane Lydon, Donna Oxenham, Carol Payne, Laura Peers, Mette Sandbye, Hanne Hammer Stien, waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, Carol Williams, Christina Williamson
Content
Introduction: Coloniality, Indigeneity, and Photography / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
Part 1: Revisiting the Modern Colonial Order
1 Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams
2 Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adventures in Sami Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
3 Negotiating Meaning: John Moller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Hovik
Part 2: Identifying Decolonial Strategies
4 Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigneous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers
5 Disruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greenhorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson
6 "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sami Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola
7 The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People / Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham
8 On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy
Part 3: Decolonizing Art
9 Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sami Political Community / Laura Junka-Aikio
10 Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye
11 Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery in Sapmi - Becoming a Nation at The Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stien
Part 4: Negotiating Theory
12 Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
Part 1: Revisiting the Modern Colonial Order
1 Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams
2 Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adventures in Sami Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
3 Negotiating Meaning: John Moller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Hovik
Part 2: Identifying Decolonial Strategies
4 Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigneous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers
5 Disruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greenhorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson
6 "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sami Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola
7 The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People / Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham
8 On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy
Part 3: Decolonizing Art
9 Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sami Political Community / Laura Junka-Aikio
10 Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye
11 Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery in Sapmi - Becoming a Nation at The Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stien
Part 4: Negotiating Theory
12 Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards