Abstract
From their first encounters with photography, Kooris - the Indigenous people of Victoria - showed an active interest in the medium. They saw and engaged with photographs in the form of daguerreotypes within a decade of white settlement of the colony of Port Phillip - even before the first portraits of Aboriginal people were produced. In this chapter I examine historical interactions between photography and Indigenous people in the Port Phillip district - known from 1851 as Victoria - and the rich and vital meanings photographs have today. My guiding question has been 'How does photography express the process of crosscultural exchange?'
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Calling the Shots: Aboriginal Photographies |
| Editors | Jane Lydon |
| Place of Publication | Australia |
| Publisher | Aboriginal Studies Press |
| Pages | 103-130 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781922059598 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |