Full Description
Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. Through 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.
The original research presented in Adjusting the Lens offers a transnational perspective on this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies. It is an exciting collection that challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation.
Contents
Introduction: Coloniality, Indigeneity, and Photography / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
Part 1: Revisiting the Modern Colonial Order
1 Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams
2 Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adventures in Sámi Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
3 Negotiating Meaning: John Møller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Høvik
Part 2: Identifying Decolonial Strategies
4 Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigneous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers
5 Disruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greenhorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson
6 "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sámi Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola
7 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
8 On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy
Part 3: Decolonizing Art
9 Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sámi Political Community / Laura Junka-Aikio
10 Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye
11 Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery in Sápmi - Becoming a Nation at The Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stien
Part 4: Negotiating Theory
12 Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
