The paper deals with the multimodal nature of the photographic series, Colour B(l)ind (1998) by the Australian Indigenous artist Brenda L. Croft. She appropriates Australian colonial photographic conventions of Whiteness in order to reinsert the absent traces of Indigenous and non-Indigenous encounters into Australian history. Brenda Croft’s strategic use of digital photography displaces colonial visual representations of “Aboriginality” through specific and localised artistic practices of memorization which variously alert Indigenous and non-Indigenous viewers to their reciprocal relations of affect and desire(s).

Colour B(l)ind: Memory Practices in Brenda L. Croft’s Visual Art

RUSSO, KATHERINE ELIZABETH
2009-01-01

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The paper deals with the multimodal nature of the photographic series, Colour B(l)ind (1998) by the Australian Indigenous artist Brenda L. Croft. She appropriates Australian colonial photographic conventions of Whiteness in order to reinsert the absent traces of Indigenous and non-Indigenous encounters into Australian history. Brenda Croft’s strategic use of digital photography displaces colonial visual representations of “Aboriginality” through specific and localised artistic practices of memorization which variously alert Indigenous and non-Indigenous viewers to their reciprocal relations of affect and desire(s).
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