Traveling Representations: Noa Noa, Manao Tupapau, and Gauguin’s Legacy in the Pacific

Waldroup, Heather

doi:10.3167/jys.2010.110201

Journeys

2010

DOI: 10.3167/jys.2010.110201

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Traveling Representations: Noa Noa, Manao Tupapau, and Gauguin’s Legacy in the Pacific

Heather Waldroup¹

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Henry Adams in Tahiti

Ahrens

2020

Journal of New Zealand &Amp; Pacific Studies

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While touring Tahiti in 1891, the American historian Henry Adams compiled an album of large-scale photographic prints that he purchased from commercial studios in Papeete. Souvenir album making was a popular pursuit amongst nineteenth-century Euro-American travellers who used the opportunity to project, validate and narrate desired travel experiences. Unlike others, Adams’s album is seemingly random and banal and lacks any clear narrative. This article attempts to make sense of Adams’s album. It asks to what extent the photographs performed their common function and validated Adams’s experience and expectations of Tahiti. It questions what the album reflects of Adams’s background, tastes and position in the islands as an elite traveller. It considers what was available for Adams to purchase from Papeete’s commercial studios, businesses that traded at a key moment in Tahiti’s complex colonial history. This article suggests that the album is a site where Adams’s desires and despair in colonial Tahiti overlap and contradict. Ultimately, it is a sign of his disappointment in photography as a medium incapable of capturing his island experiences.

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Henry Adams in Tahiti

Ahrens

2020

Journal of New Zealand &Amp; Pacific Studies

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Photography of indenture

Shamriz

2024

Journal of New Zealand &Amp; Pacific Studies

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The 1882 photography book by British photographer Colonel Henry Stuart Wortley, Tahiti: A Series of Photographs, features an image of a family of service workers. Wortley, who only briefly passed through the island, refers to the couple in the photograph as his ‘servants’. This article traces the margins of the journey of Wortley, as well as that of Lady Annie Brassey, an ultra-wealthy traveller and photography enthusiast who visited Tahiti in 1876 and who contributed the letterpress to Wortley’s book. By analysing the text and images of the book and looking at the historical context of Tahiti at that time, and the place European military personnel, travellers, entrepreneurs, royals and local workers had in the island’s economy and society, this article argues for the incentives and implications of trivializing and invisiblizing Tahitian labour. Looking at our engagement with a photograph as a transtemporal performance, beginning in the photograph’s commission, through the moment of encounter and until its printing and viewing years later, this article considers as a beginning of an entanglement the encounter between Wortley and the Tahitian family. I discuss how, by travelling in 2022 to Tahiti and revisiting Wortley’s photographs in different locations around the island, I aimed to influence those entanglements.

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Katherine Mansfield,Rhythm, and Metropolitan Primitivism

Snyder¹

2015

The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies

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