Restricted Images Made With the Warlpiri of Central Australia

Restricted Images is a collection of artworks made at the Warlukurlangu art centre, NT Australia, with local Warlpiri artists. In institutions across Australia and Europe, archives encompassing thousands of colonial-era anthropological artefacts are now largely inaccessible, and images are often restricted to avoid showing pictures that infringe on Aboriginal cultural beliefs. With rules in place that mean only the descendants of people pictured can decide who is allowed to access them, much of the material remains unseen. Attitudes towards these images have changed since they were celebrated as a feat of anthropological photography by colonialists in the late 1800s, and now lingers an institutional uncertainty in how to approach the question of representation. In response, Waterhouse developed a collaborative venture in symbolically returning to the communities the agency over their own images. Spending several years taking pictures of

ISBN:	9781999814465
Publisher:	SPBH Editions
Imprint:	Self Publish, Be Happy
Published date:	31 Oct 2022
DEWEY:	305.89915
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	131
Weight:	838g
Height:	265mm
Width:	297mm
Spine width:	22mm

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