Content tagged with Photography

Digitising the AIATSIS lantern slide collections

Lantern slides are a unique format that were in wide use from the 18th to mid-20th century and allowed glass photographic transparencies to be...

Blog post - 5 Sep 2018

Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 1, 2018

Abstracts Un-filtering the settler colonial archive: Indigenous community-based photographers in Australia and the United States — Ngarrindjeri...

Publication or resource - 9 Jul 2018

Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 1, 2017

Abstracts Photoyarn: Aboriginal and Mãori girls’ researching contemporary boarding school experiences — Jessa Rogers Abstract: Few studies...

Publication or resource - 9 Jul 2018

Finding families on film

It’s a Long Road Back DVD cover This year marks 10 years since the National Apology to Australia’s Stolen Generations, 20 years since the...

Blog post - 3 Apr 2018

Family history research success for Fred

Fred Leftwich was one of 20 attendees at the Family History Unit session at the Queanbeyan Heritage Festival. The Family History Unit provided...

Blog post - 16 Aug 2017

Images from AIATSIS Collection projected for Enlighten

Pictures from the AIATSIS photographic collection feature in the Museum of Australian Democracy’s contribution to this year’s Enlighten Festival....

Blog post - 2 Mar 2017

Nova Peris - 'Old Man's Story' Launch at Parliament House

NOVA PERIS Thanks JP.   Good morning,   Firstly, and importantly, let me also begin by also acknowledging the traditional...

Video - 10 Sep 2015

Mark Lang - 'Old Man's Story' Launch at Parliament House

MARK LANG Thank you JP for that. Thanks very much indeed it’s amazing to be here I have to say. I was thinking last night how curious it is...

Video - 10 Sep 2015

Senator Peris launches Old Man’s story

ASP staff Rochelle Jones and Rachel Ippoliti with Senator Nova Peris and Photographer Mark Lang at the book launch Senator Nova Peris OAM...

News - 10 Sep 2015

Focus on lantern slides

A lantern slide from the United Aborigines Mission collection - Colebrook Home being prepared for scanning. Two separate collections of...

News - 24 Aug 2015

Rare photo of Indigenous involvement in the Boer War

A war raged across South Africa between Britain and the two Dutch-Afrikaner, or Boer, Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free States from 10...

Explore article - 3 Jun 2015

Calling the Shots - Aboriginal Photographies

[[nid:17081]] Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today ...

Explore article - 3 Jun 2015

AIATSIS launches new website

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has a brand new website. When AIATSIS formed in 1964, we set...

News - 16 Mar 2015

Calling the shots: Aboriginal photographies

Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images...

News - 18 Feb 2015

Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 1, 2006

Abstracts for Issue 1, 2006 Welfare reform and Indigenous empowerment Nerelle Poroch The Prime Minister’s Indigenous welfare reform is...

Publication or resource - 16 Feb 2015

Visual knowledge: Spencer and Gillen’s use of photography in "The Native Tribes of Central Australia"

The Native Tribes of Central Australia, published in 1899, was by far and away the best photographically illustrated ethnography up to that time. It...

Publication or resource - 15 Feb 2015

Calling the shots: Aboriginal photographies

Summary Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such...

Publication or resource - 28 Jan 2015

Calling the shots: Aboriginal photographies

Summary Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such...

Publication or resource - 28 Jan 2015

Calling the shots: Aboriginal photographies

Summary Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such...

Publication or resource - 28 Jan 2015

Calling the shots: Aboriginal photographies

Summary Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such...

Publication or resource - 28 Jan 2015

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