Eye contact: photographing Indigenous Australians.

Eye contact: photographing Indigenous Australians

Jane Lydon

Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005, xxvi+303pp, ISBN 0822335727

I begin this review with an admission. Not versed in the arcane language of postmodernist theory or any of its various offshoots, I found large slabs of this book beyond my powers of comprehension. Take the following: 'In [Charles] Walter's interest in the Aboriginal people of Victoria expressed through a visual language we see the circulation of mimesis and alterity as white fascination with Aboriginal mimicry is itself expressed ...

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