The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands

by Christopher Wright

The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs made by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Roviana people, photographs are unique objects; they are not reproducible,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822355108
• ISBN13: 9780822355106
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.9"