From July 2 - 4, 2014 Griffith University’s Centre for Cultural Research in Brisbane, Australia, hosted 'Broken Images: A symposium on early American photography in the Asia Pacific', co-convened by Dr Prue Ahrens and Professor Fiona Paisley, and sponsored by the Terra Foundation of American Art, Ch…
Dr Jennifer Watts, Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens: Storyteller with a Camera: Jack London and the Cruise of the Snark. Chair: Ms Ruth McDougall, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art
Dr Erika Esau, Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Early Landscape Photography in California and Australia: A comparative view. Chairs: Associate Professor Anne Maxwell, University of Melbourne and Dr Rosemary Hawker, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
Ms. Gael Newton, National Gallery of Australia: First Generation American National Geographic Magazine Photographers, 1900s – 1940s. Chairs: Associate Professor Anne Maxwell, University of Melbourne and Dr Rosemary Hawker, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Professor Lamont Lindstrom, University of Tulsa: Shooting Melanesians: Early still and motions pictures from the Southwest Pacific. Chair: Professor Fiona Paisley.
Dr Prue Ahrens, Griffith University: An Unreliable Source: Henry Adams’s Tahitian Album, 1891. Chair: Professor Fiona Paisley.
Associate Professor Ann Elias, University of Sydney: Relations with Natives: Photography, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific War. Chair: Ms Ruth McDougall, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art.
Dr Jennifer Watts, Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens: Storyteller with a Camera: Jack London and the Cruise of the Snark. Chair: Ms Ruth McDougall, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art
Mr. Joseph Ho, University of Michigan: ‘In Memoriam’: Photography and disrupted American missionary projects in China, 1890 – 1950 Chairs: Associate Professor Anne Maxwell, University of Melbourne and Dr Rosemary Hawker, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Associate Professor Morris Low, University of Queensland: American Photography during the allied occupation of Japan, 1945 – 1952. Chairs: Associate Professor Anne Maxwell, University of Melbourne and Dr Rosemary Hawker, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Dr Martyn Jolly, Australian National University: The Photography of Robert B. Goodman. Chairs: Associate Professor Anne Maxwell, University of Melbourne and Dr Rosemary Hawker, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Ms. Gael Newton, National Gallery of Australia: First Generation American National Geographic Magazine Photographers, 1900s – 1940s. Chairs: Associate Professor Anne Maxwell, University of Melbourne and Dr Rosemary Hawker, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Dr Erika Esau, Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Early Landscape Photography in California and Australia: A comparative view. Chairs: Associate Professor Anne Maxwell, University of Melbourne and Dr Rosemary Hawker, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Professor Fiona Paisley, Griffith University: Hawaii International: Photography, Anthropology, and Pan-Pacific Internationalism in the mid-Twentieth Century. Chair: Dr Prue Ahrens, Griffith University.
Professor Mark Rice, St John Fisher College: Politics and Photography in the Colonial Philippines. Chair: Dr Prue Ahrens, Griffith University.
Dr Kate Evans from Radio National facilitates the discussion amongst the specialist panel of Ms Gael Newton (National Gallery of Australia), Dr Jennifer Watts (Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens), Dr Prue Ahrens (Griffith University) and Professor Mark Rice (St John Fisher College, New York).