Portraits of Oceania

27 August-26 October 1997, The Art Gallery of New South Wales

• Author(s): Judy Annear, Art Gallery of New South Wales,
• Publisher: Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Pages: 122
• ISBN_10: 0731310039
  ISBN_13: 9780731310036
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Subjects & Themes / General , Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General , Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Australian & Oceanian Studies , Social Science / Indigenous Studies ,

Description:... Portraits of Oceania is based on a series of photographs by Charles Kerry, Henry King and Paul Foelsche featuring Aboriginal Australians in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, augmented by portraits of Maori from New Zealand, and the peoples of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga who were closely connected to the eastern seaboard of Australia in the nineteenth century by commerce and religious enterprises -- cf. Permission to look, p. 5.