- Title
- The flash of recognition: photography and the emergence of Indigenous Rights by Jane Lydon
- Creator
- Barnes, Jillian
- Relation
- Aboriginal History Vol. 37, p. 151-153
- Relation
- http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/aboriginal-history-journal/volume-37
- Publisher
- Australian National University (ANU Press)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- As global events and relations have become increasingly shaped by visual culture, individual viewers have experienced the power of a single image to arrest their attention, shock their sense of propriety, arouse feelings of sympathy or anger, and propel them to rally against the ill treatment of other people. The catalyst for this masterly inquiry into the role played by photography in Australian human rights history was Jane Lydon’s epiphanous encounter with the image of two chained Aboriginal prisoners on the cover of Charles Rowley’s The Destruction of Aboriginal Society. This image inspired her to investigate how such images transformed Australian race relations.
- Subject
- photography; indigenous rights; media; human rights
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067340
- Identifier
- uon:18355
- Identifier
- ISSN:0314-8769
- Language
- eng
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