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Postcards from Oceania: Port Towns, Portraits and the Picturesque During the Colonial Era - Softcover
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Photographically illustrated postcards reveal many insights on Pacific peoples and cultures, colonial rule, economic development and travel that support, but sometimes challenges histories based solely on documents, print and text. Postcards do reveal more about European perceptions and preconceived notions of the tropics, than about the indigenous subjects instructed carefully by the photographer. But there were contrary readings, and many postcards diverged from the conventional framing established during the early colonial era. Many photographers, critical of their own practice, sought out the unusual and uncharacteristic and many frustratingly found that postcard editors far away used captions to embellish their images with meanings not intended at the time the photograph was taken.
Postcards from Oceania is about the colonial era, but also about how audiences defined the Pacific amidst the postcard deluge of belles, bananas, port towns, pirogues, and plantations.
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- PublisherThe University of the South Pacific Press
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 9820109418
- ISBN 13 9789820109414
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages201
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POSTCARDS FROM OCEANIA: Port Towns, Portraits and the Picturesque during the Colonial Era
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University of the South Pacific Press. Suva. ., 2015
ISBN 10: 9820109418
ISBN 13: 9789820109414
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1st Ed. 202 PP with b/w or colour illustrations of 221 postcards. Pictorial soft cover. Note on title page signed by the authors. New. 25 x 17.5. Seller Inventory # 66430
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Postcards from Oceania: Port Towns, Portraits and the Picturesque During the Colonial Era
Published by
The University of the South Pacific Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 9820109418
ISBN 13: 9789820109414
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Soft cover
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 201 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. Photographically illustrated postcards reveal many insights on Pacific peoples and cultures, colonial rule, economic development and travel that support, but sometimes challenges histories based solely on documents, print and text. Postcards do reveal more about European perceptions and preconceived notions of the tropics, than about the indigenous subjects instructed carefully by the photographer. But there were contrary readings, and many postcards diverged from the conventional framing established during the early colonial era. Many photographers, critical of their own practice, sought out the unusual and uncharacteristic and many frustratingly found that postcard editors far away used captions to embellish their images with meanings not intended at the time the photograph was taken. Postcards from Oceania is about the colonial era, but also about how audiences defined the Pacific amidst the postcard deluge of belles, bananas, port towns, pirogues, and plantations. Seller Inventory # 9789820109414USP4X012516
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