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

Lien, Sigrid, 1958- (editor.). Nielssen, Hilde (editor.).

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."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780774866613 (softcover)
Physical Description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: coloniality, indigeneity, and photography / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen -- Part 1: Revisiting the modern colonial order: Reading a regional colonial photographic archive: residential schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams -- Camera encounters: bourgeois settler women's adventures in Sami areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen -- Negotiating meaning: John Møller's photographs in early twentieth-century Scandinavian literature / Ingeborg Høvik -- Part 2: Identifying decolonial strategies : Reclaiming pasts, reclaiming futures: Indigenous re-workings of historical photography in North America / Laura Peers -- Disruption and testimony: archival photographs, project naming, and Inuit memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne and Beth Greenhorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson -- "Our histories" in the photographs of others: Sami approaches to archival visual materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola -- 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 -- On being with (a photograph of) Sugar Bush womxn: towards Anishinaabe feminist archival research methods / waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy -- Part 3: Decolonizing art -- Indigenous culture jamming: Suohpanterror and the art of articulating a Sami political community / Laura Junka-Aikio -- Negotiating postcolonial identity: photography as archive, collaborative aesthetics, and storytelling in contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye -- 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 -- Photographic studies and Indigenous photographies: some thoughts on categories, assumptions, and theories / Elizabeth Edwards -- Contributors -- Index.