Research Catalog

Title

Picturing paradise : colonial photography of Samoa, 1875 to 1925 / Casey Blanton, editor ; with essays by Elizabeth Edwards ... [et al.].

Publication

[Daytona Beach, Fla.] : Daytona Beach Community College, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Blanton, Casey
• Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
• Mesenhöller, Peter, 1956-
• Nordström, Alison Devine
• Von Reiche, Momoe Malietoa
• Webb, Virginia-Lee
• Southeast Museum of Photography
• Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde
• Pitt Rivers Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

149 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 map; 23 cm.

Subject

• Geschichte 1875-1925
• Photographie > Samoa (îles)
• Photography > Samoan Islands
• Foto's
• Koloniale periode
• Ausstellung
• Photography > Samoan Islands > Exhibitions
• Portrait photography > Samoan Islands > Exhibitions
• Samoan Islands > Pictorial works
• Samoa (îles) > Ouvrages illustrés
• Samoainseln
• Samoan Islands > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Köln (1995)
• Pictorial works
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition produced by the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Fla. in collaboration with the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum of Ethnology, Cologne.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-139).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Popular photography of Samoa: production, dissemination, & use / Alison Devine Nordström -- Ethnography considers history: some examples form Samoa / Peter Mesen höller -- Visuality & history: a contemplation on two photographs of Samoa by Capt. W. Acland, Royal Navy / Elizabeth Edwards -- Illuminated views: photographs of Samoa by Rev. George Brown / Virginia-Lee Webb -- Letter from Apia / Momoe Malietoa von Reiche -- Plates -- Checklist of the exhibition / Peter Mesenhöller & Allison Devine Nordström.

ISBN

• 1887040145
• 9781887040143

OCLC

• 33991214
• SCSB-10286640

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library