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Editore: The University of the South Pacific Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 9820109418ISBN 13: 9789820109414
Da: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condizione: 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.