The photograph as archive: Crafting contemporary Koorie culture
In 2008, an Aboriginal Australian artist based in Melbourne, Australia, created a kangaroo-teeth necklace, revivifying an art/cultural practice for the first time in over a century. She was inspired to do so after viewing an 1880 photograph of an ancestor wearing such adornment. In this article, I b...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sage Publ.
[2019]
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Journal of material culture
Jahr: 2019, Band: 24, Heft: 1, Seiten: 22-47 |
| RelBib Classification: | BB Indigene Religionen KBS Australien; Ozeanien ZB Soziologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Photography
B Archive B culture-making B Australia B artworlds B urban Indigenous |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In 2008, an Aboriginal Australian artist based in Melbourne, Australia, created a kangaroo-teeth necklace, revivifying an art/cultural practice for the first time in over a century. She was inspired to do so after viewing an 1880 photograph of an ancestor wearing such adornment. In this article, I bring the necklace and the photograph into the same analytical frame, arguing for the photograph as an archive itself. I consider the trajectories through which the 19th-century image has been replicated and circulated in various productions of knowledge about Aboriginal people, and how a 21st-century artist is mobilizing it not just as a repository of visual information, but also as an impetus to creative production. She produces objects of value and is making culture anew, in a context in which Aboriginality has long/often been presumed absent, extinct or elsewhere. |
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| ISSN: | 1460-3586 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of material culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1359183518782716 |