Waubonsee Community College

Adjusting the lens, indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage, edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Adjusting the lens

bibliography

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edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen

indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

"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."--, Provided by publisher