Adjusting the lens : indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

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Label

Adjusting the lens : indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

Title remainder

indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

Statement of responsibility

edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen

Contributor

• Lien, Sigrid, 1958-
• Nielssen, Hilde,
• Lien, Sigrid, 1958-
• Nielssen, Hilde,

Editor

• Lien, Sigrid, 1958-
• Nielssen, Hilde,
• Nielssen, Hilde,
• Lien, Sigrid, 1958-

Subject

• Indigenous art
• Indigenous art
• Indigenous art
• Indigenous peoples
• Indigenous peoples -- Portraits
• Indigenous peoples -- Portraits
• Photography
• Photography
• Photography
• Photography -- Political aspects
• Photography -- Political aspects
• Photography -- Political aspects
• Photography -- Social aspects
• Photography -- Social aspects
• Photography -- Social aspects
• Political art
• Political art
• Political art
• Portraits

Genre

• Portraits

Language

eng

Summary

"Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In 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. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation."--

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Issued also in electronic formats

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Provided by publisher

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NLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography