Prue Ahrens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3998957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prue Ahrens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prue |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahrens |
| SIGNATURE | AHRENS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Special issue
Henry Adams in Tahiti
While touring Tahiti in 1891, the American historian Henry Adams compiled an album of large-scale photographic prints that he purchased from commercial studios in Papeete. Souvenir album making was a popular pursuit amongst nineteenth-century Euro-American travellers who used the opportunity to project, validate and narrate desired travel experiences. Unlike others, Adams’s album is seemingly random and banal and lacks any clear narrative. This a…
Special Issue
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Osa Johnson’s road to civilization
The self-described ‘motion picture explorer’ American Martin Johnson frequently cast his wife Osa (1894–1953) as the star of his African and Asian Pacific expeditionary films. Her appeal to audiences was evidenced not just by the media hype surrounding the features, but also by the many spin-off enterprises the Johnsons variously produced and inspired, from published memoirs to a clothing-line. Throughout the Johnsons’ productions, Osa performed …
Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
John La Farge and the Imagined Isles
Convict Art and Craft in Colonial New Caledonia
New Caledonia’s history as a penal colony, and its past association with crime and punishment, is well documented. What remains unrecognised in published histories is the operation of the prison workshops, specifically the production of art and craft that was traded beyond the prison walls. A collection of convict art and craft recently acquired by the Noumea Town Museum and displayed in the exhibit ‘Ile d’exil, Terre d’asile’, contributes much t…
From Darkness to Light
Colonising with Christianity
Reading the Reverend George Brown's Samoan Photographs
The Reverend George Brown (1835–1917), an Australian Methodist missionary, produced approximately nine hundred photographs of Pacific people and places between 1876 and 1903 during his residences in the islands. Of these, three hundred images were produced in Samoa. The importance of these photographs lies in their original purpose — to present an understanding of native people and a process of conversion to a European audience. Virginia-Lee Webb…
Reading the Reverend George Brown's Samoan Photographs
The Reverend George Brown (1835–1917), an Australian Methodist missionary, produced approximately nine hundred photographs of Pacific people and places between 1876 and 1903 during his residences in the islands. Of these, three hundred images were produced in Samoa. The importance of these photographs lies in their original purpose — to present an understanding of native people and a process of conversion to a European audience. Virginia-Lee Webb…
From Darkness to Light
Colonising with Christianity
Convict Art and Craft in Colonial New Caledonia
New Caledonia’s history as a penal colony, and its past association with crime and punishment, is well documented. What remains unrecognised in published histories is the operation of the prison workshops, specifically the production of art and craft that was traded beyond the prison walls. A collection of convict art and craft recently acquired by the Noumea Town Museum and displayed in the exhibit ‘Ile d’exil, Terre d’asile’, contributes much t…
John La Farge and the Imagined Isles
Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
Osa Johnson’s road to civilization
The self-described ‘motion picture explorer’ American Martin Johnson frequently cast his wife Osa (1894–1953) as the star of his African and Asian Pacific expeditionary films. Her appeal to audiences was evidenced not just by the media hype surrounding the features, but also by the many spin-off enterprises the Johnsons variously produced and inspired, from published memoirs to a clothing-line. Throughout the Johnsons’ productions, Osa performed …
Special issue
Henry Adams in Tahiti
While touring Tahiti in 1891, the American historian Henry Adams compiled an album of large-scale photographic prints that he purchased from commercial studios in Papeete. Souvenir album making was a popular pursuit amongst nineteenth-century Euro-American travellers who used the opportunity to project, validate and narrate desired travel experiences. Unlike others, Adams’s album is seemingly random and banal and lacks any clear narrative. This a…
Special Issue
Preview this article: Special Issue: Photography in the Pacific Part 2, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/nzps/8/2/nzps.8.2.147-1.gif
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