A Maxwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 16273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Maxwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Maxwell |
| SIGNATURE | MAXWELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9595-2423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reading the Face
This article aims to demonstrate the impact that Johann Caspar Lavater's system of reading the face (a system called physiognomy) had on the development of portrait photography in nineteenth century Britain. Lavater published his major work on physiognomy in the 18th century but because it was aimed at discerning moral character, many of its elements were taken up and used by those nineteenth-century race scientists and state functionaries who, c…
George Turner's Down There in Darkness and the Future of Humanity
Photography in the Great War
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–1940
Thilly Weissenborn
Thilly Weissenborn (1883–1964) was one of Indonesia’s first woman photographers of significance. She was born in Java but schooled, like most Netherlands colonials, in The Hague. At the age of eighteen, Thilly returned to Java where she trained in the famous Atelier Kurkdjian before opening her own studio in the province of Preanger. For more than two decades, she supplied the colonial government’s tourist bureau with photographs featuring Java’s…
Modernist Photography and Women’s Social Networks
This article’s title refers to the larger project of illuminating the social networks informing Australian artistic communities from the late colonial period to the middle of the twentieth century. Focusing primarily on developments in photography, the article itself asks what were the links between creative practices and the social relationships that characterised the modernist period in particular? It attempts to answer this question by examini…
Camera, Colony, Künstlerroman
This article traces the practices of photography that have been portrayed in three Australian artists’ novels: Patrick White’s The Vivisector, David Malouf’s Harland’s Half Acre, and Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights. Photography’s shifting status in relation to art, modes of knowledge, modes of production, and methods of relating to space suggest a growing discomfort in the nation’s literary imagination towards colonial art’s mobilisation of the imagina…
The Language of Light and Dark
Melissa Miles’s book is not a history of Australian photography in the twentieth century so much as an attempt to understand how the country’s photographers have used the metaphoric qualities of li
Framing the Asia-Pacific
The St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904 was an occasion for celebrating the USA’s purchase of the State of Louisiana and the American government’s recent annexation of the Philippine Islands. So that Americans could familiarise themselves with the people from their latest acquisition, hundreds of live Filipinos were placed on display at the fair. Also featured were Asian people from a variety of Pacific Rim nations. A small group of women photographer…
Framing the Non-West
Framing the Non-West:New approaches to the history of photography Anne Maxwell Photography’s Orientalism: New essays on colonial representation. Edited by Ali Behdad and Luke Gartlan. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2013. Visual Histories: Photography in the popular imagination. By Malavika Karlekar. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013. The Echo of Things: The lives of photographs in the Solomon Islands. By Christopher Wright. Durham, N.C.,…
The Beast Within’
Both Stevensonâ s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Clarkeâ s â The Mystery of Major Molineuxâ (1881) appear to have influenced a small group of Australian short story writers who were working in the decade immediately preceding Federation. Their work appeared in The Bulletin, The Boomerang and the Australian Journal, as well as in privately edited collections of short fiction. This essay examines Campbell McKellar's 'The Premi…
Patriots Against Fashion
Factors Influencing the Acculturation of Burmese, Bhutanese, and Iraqi Refugees Into American Society
We examined the acculturation experiences of Burmese, Bhutanese, and Iraqi refugees living in central Virginia based on the model of acculturation developed by J. W. Berry. We identified themes in examining the effects of English language proficiency, level of social support, financial stability, and expectations about and satisfaction with life in the United States on acculturative stress. Language difficulty and barriers to accessing education,…
Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
From the outset, Robert Dixon is clear that this is not a book about Frank Hurley or his huge collection of multidisciplinary works; instead, it is a book about colonial modernity. It just so happe
Modern anthropology and the problem of the racial type
Franz Boas is best known for his pioneering work in the area of cultural anthropology. However in the 1890s, Boas created hundreds of anthropometric photographs as part of a vast study aimed at documenting the physical characteristics of Native Americans. The primary purpose of the Jesup Expedition, as the study was called, was to discover the racial origins of America's Native peoples, but the data collected and the knowledge gained were also la…
Obama, Clinton, Palin
Beautiful Hybrids’
In the early years of the twentieth century the Hawaiian-based American photographer Caroline Gurrey produced a much praised set of the photographs of Hawai‘i’s ‘mixed race’ children. Critics have noted that stylistically Gurrey's photographs belong to the pictorialist school and possibly even to the high art style of the Photo-Seccessionists, however research into her background and life, and the contexts in which these photographs were produced…
Biopolitics and Eleanor Dark’s *Prelude to Christopher
â In 1934 Miles Franklin described Eleanor Darkâ s second novel, Prelude to Christopher, as â a terribly beautiful piece of workâ (128). One of Darkâ s earliest critics, Franklin attributed the bookâ s strength to the authorâ s deft handling of a tragic theme and â the urge to speak the naked truthâ (125). Later critics emphasised the bookâ s experimental style, especially its skilled handling o the multiple viewpoints, flashbacks and interior mo…
Oceana Revisited
In his popular Romance of London (1867), John Timbs refers to Thomas Babington Macaulay's oft-repeated metaphor of a “New Zealander sitting, like a hundredth-century Marius, on the mouldering arches of London Bridge, contemplating the colossal ruins of St Paul's” (290). Originally intended as an illustration of the vigor and durability of the Roman Catholic Church despite the triumph of the Reformation, Macaulay's most famous evocation of this id…
Eugenics and the Classical Ideal of Beauty in Philip K. Dick’s “The Golden Man”
Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Golden Man” (1954) is a compelling portrayal of the threat to the human race posed by a beautiful male mutant. It is also a powerful critique of the classical ideal of male beauty that was integral to the early-to-mid-twentieth-century eugenics movement. Dick wrote “The Golden Man” at a time when eugenics had lost much of its appeal due to its association with the Nazis and their racial projects. Yet the classica…
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Patient presentation, interview content, and the detection of depression by primary care physicians
This study was undertaken in order to better understand the detection of depression by primary care physicians. Specifically, we investigated the relationship between information gathered during the course of the medical interview and the subsequent diagnosis of depression. Forty-seven community-based primary care physicians, unaware of the mental health focus of this research, were videotaped in the office setting, as they interviewed two "typic…
Post-Colonial Histories and Identities
Native’ women and tourism
Factors Influencing the Acculturation of Burmese, Bhutanese, and Iraqi Refugees Into American Society
We examined the acculturation experiences of Burmese, Bhutanese, and Iraqi refugees living in central Virginia based on the model of acculturation developed by J. W. Berry. We identified themes in examining the effects of English language proficiency, level of social support, financial stability, and expectations about and satisfaction with life in the United States on acculturative stress. Language difficulty and barriers to accessing education,…
Modern anthropology and the problem of the racial type
Franz Boas is best known for his pioneering work in the area of cultural anthropology. However in the 1890s, Boas created hundreds of anthropometric photographs as part of a vast study aimed at documenting the physical characteristics of Native Americans. The primary purpose of the Jesup Expedition, as the study was called, was to discover the racial origins of America's Native peoples, but the data collected and the knowledge gained were also la…
Post-Colonial Histories and Identities
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–1940
Camera, Colony, Künstlerroman
This article traces the practices of photography that have been portrayed in three Australian artists’ novels: Patrick White’s The Vivisector, David Malouf’s Harland’s Half Acre, and Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights. Photography’s shifting status in relation to art, modes of knowledge, modes of production, and methods of relating to space suggest a growing discomfort in the nation’s literary imagination towards colonial art’s mobilisation of the imagina…
Native’ women and tourism
Patient presentation, interview content, and the detection of depression by primary care physicians
This study was undertaken in order to better understand the detection of depression by primary care physicians. Specifically, we investigated the relationship between information gathered during the course of the medical interview and the subsequent diagnosis of depression. Forty-seven community-based primary care physicians, unaware of the mental health focus of this research, were videotaped in the office setting, as they interviewed two "typic…
Post-Colonial Histories and Identities
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Oceana Revisited
In his popular Romance of London (1867), John Timbs refers to Thomas Babington Macaulay's oft-repeated metaphor of a “New Zealander sitting, like a hundredth-century Marius, on the mouldering arches of London Bridge, contemplating the colossal ruins of St Paul's” (290). Originally intended as an illustration of the vigor and durability of the Roman Catholic Church despite the triumph of the Reformation, Macaulay's most famous evocation of this id…
Eugenics and the Classical Ideal of Beauty in Philip K. Dick’s “The Golden Man”
Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Golden Man” (1954) is a compelling portrayal of the threat to the human race posed by a beautiful male mutant. It is also a powerful critique of the classical ideal of male beauty that was integral to the early-to-mid-twentieth-century eugenics movement. Dick wrote “The Golden Man” at a time when eugenics had lost much of its appeal due to its association with the Nazis and their racial projects. Yet the classica…
Biopolitics and Eleanor Dark’s *Prelude to Christopher
â In 1934 Miles Franklin described Eleanor Darkâ s second novel, Prelude to Christopher, as â a terribly beautiful piece of workâ (128). One of Darkâ s earliest critics, Franklin attributed the bookâ s strength to the authorâ s deft handling of a tragic theme and â the urge to speak the naked truthâ (125). Later critics emphasised the bookâ s experimental style, especially its skilled handling o the multiple viewpoints, flashbacks and interior mo…
Beautiful Hybrids’
In the early years of the twentieth century the Hawaiian-based American photographer Caroline Gurrey produced a much praised set of the photographs of Hawai‘i’s ‘mixed race’ children. Critics have noted that stylistically Gurrey's photographs belong to the pictorialist school and possibly even to the high art style of the Photo-Seccessionists, however research into her background and life, and the contexts in which these photographs were produced…
Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
From the outset, Robert Dixon is clear that this is not a book about Frank Hurley or his huge collection of multidisciplinary works; instead, it is a book about colonial modernity. It just so happe
Modern anthropology and the problem of the racial type
Franz Boas is best known for his pioneering work in the area of cultural anthropology. However in the 1890s, Boas created hundreds of anthropometric photographs as part of a vast study aimed at documenting the physical characteristics of Native Americans. The primary purpose of the Jesup Expedition, as the study was called, was to discover the racial origins of America's Native peoples, but the data collected and the knowledge gained were also la…
Obama, Clinton, Palin
Patriots Against Fashion
Factors Influencing the Acculturation of Burmese, Bhutanese, and Iraqi Refugees Into American Society
We examined the acculturation experiences of Burmese, Bhutanese, and Iraqi refugees living in central Virginia based on the model of acculturation developed by J. W. Berry. We identified themes in examining the effects of English language proficiency, level of social support, financial stability, and expectations about and satisfaction with life in the United States on acculturative stress. Language difficulty and barriers to accessing education,…
Framing the Asia-Pacific
The St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904 was an occasion for celebrating the USA’s purchase of the State of Louisiana and the American government’s recent annexation of the Philippine Islands. So that Americans could familiarise themselves with the people from their latest acquisition, hundreds of live Filipinos were placed on display at the fair. Also featured were Asian people from a variety of Pacific Rim nations. A small group of women photographer…
Framing the Non-West
Framing the Non-West:New approaches to the history of photography Anne Maxwell Photography’s Orientalism: New essays on colonial representation. Edited by Ali Behdad and Luke Gartlan. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2013. Visual Histories: Photography in the popular imagination. By Malavika Karlekar. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013. The Echo of Things: The lives of photographs in the Solomon Islands. By Christopher Wright. Durham, N.C.,…
The Beast Within’
Both Stevensonâ s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Clarkeâ s â The Mystery of Major Molineuxâ (1881) appear to have influenced a small group of Australian short story writers who were working in the decade immediately preceding Federation. Their work appeared in The Bulletin, The Boomerang and the Australian Journal, as well as in privately edited collections of short fiction. This essay examines Campbell McKellar's 'The Premi…
The Language of Light and Dark
Melissa Miles’s book is not a history of Australian photography in the twentieth century so much as an attempt to understand how the country’s photographers have used the metaphoric qualities of li
Modernist Photography and Women’s Social Networks
This article’s title refers to the larger project of illuminating the social networks informing Australian artistic communities from the late colonial period to the middle of the twentieth century. Focusing primarily on developments in photography, the article itself asks what were the links between creative practices and the social relationships that characterised the modernist period in particular? It attempts to answer this question by examini…
Camera, Colony, Künstlerroman
This article traces the practices of photography that have been portrayed in three Australian artists’ novels: Patrick White’s The Vivisector, David Malouf’s Harland’s Half Acre, and Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights. Photography’s shifting status in relation to art, modes of knowledge, modes of production, and methods of relating to space suggest a growing discomfort in the nation’s literary imagination towards colonial art’s mobilisation of the imagina…
Thilly Weissenborn
Thilly Weissenborn (1883–1964) was one of Indonesia’s first woman photographers of significance. She was born in Java but schooled, like most Netherlands colonials, in The Hague. At the age of eighteen, Thilly returned to Java where she trained in the famous Atelier Kurkdjian before opening her own studio in the province of Preanger. For more than two decades, she supplied the colonial government’s tourist bureau with photographs featuring Java’s…
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–1940
Photography in the Great War
George Turner's Down There in Darkness and the Future of Humanity
Reading the Face
This article aims to demonstrate the impact that Johann Caspar Lavater's system of reading the face (a system called physiognomy) had on the development of portrait photography in nineteenth century Britain. Lavater published his major work on physiognomy in the 18th century but because it was aimed at discerning moral character, many of its elements were taken up and used by those nineteenth-century race scientists and state functionaries who, c…
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