Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Language and style -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The photographic encounter -- Visibility and Photography: A Brief History -- Photographs Today: Indigenous Cultural Heritage -- Indigenous Artists -- Notes -- TASMANIA -- CHAPTER 2 Forgotten lives: The First Photographs of Tasmanian Aboriginal People -- The first Photograph -- Control and Containment -- The People Who Went to Oyster Cove -- The visiting Bishop and Too Little, Too Late -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- NEW SOUTH WALES -- CHAPTER 3 Photographing Indigenous People in New South Wales -- John William Lindt (1845-1926): Still Lives -- Links To Today -- Connecting with the Cowans -- Trickery and Artifice -- Commercial Markets -- Intimacy and Reclamation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4 Picture Who We Are: Representations of Identity and the Appropriation of Photographs Into a Wiradjuri Oral History Tradition -- Introduction -- Appropriating Representations -- Meaning and Identity -- Banking Identities -- Wiradjuri Excellence -- A Bidja -- Conclusion -- Notes -- VICTORIA -- CHAPTER 5 Photographing Kooris: Photography and Exchange -- Missionaries and Photography: 'Tell Jane I want Her Likeness' -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- QUEENSLAND -- CHAPTER 6 Aboriginal People and Four Early Brisbane Photographers -- Portraits of Our Elders -- Early Brisbane Photographers -- John Watson -- William Knight -- Thomas Bevan -- Daniel Marquis -- Richard Daintree -- The Importance of Photographs -- Notes -- SOUTH AUSTRALIA -- CHAPTER 7 Photographing South Australian Indigenous People: 'Far More Gentlemanly Than Many' -- Jackey and Jemima Gunlarnman -- 'The Nucleus of the Native Church': Poonindie Mission -- 1860s: Growing Circulation -- Ngarrindjeri and Point McLeay Mission -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.

CHAPTER 8 'It's that Reflection': Photography as Recuperative Practice, a Ngarrindjeri Perspective -- 'The Weaving of Our Stories and Our Movement in Family': Aunty Ellen's Album -- Queen Ethel -- Queen Louisa -- 'Separated Under False Pretences': William and Patrick Brown -- Uncle Tom's Album: Remembering a Way of Life -- Aunty Charlotte Richards: A Pioneering Ngarrindjeri Photographer -- Aunty Joyce Kerswell: Keeper of the Archive and 'A Llady of History' -- Memory and Photographic Loss -- Conclusion: Recuperation and the Weaving of our Stories Through Photography -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- WESTERN AUSTRALIA -- CHAPTER 9 Photographing Aboriginal Australians in West Australia -- The Mission Era -- A History of West Australian Photography -- Carte de Visite Photography -- Major Collections and Holding Places for Photographic Archives in Western Australia -- Battye Library of Western Australia -- Berndt Museum of Anthropology -- Anthropology Department Photographic Collection Western Australian Museum -- Indigenous Communities and Repatriation Projects -- Research projects -- Future directions -- Notes -- NORTHERN TERRITORY -- CHAPTER 10 Photographing the Outback: The Last Frontier? -- Macassans -- 'Strong, Beautiful People' -- Seeing the Centre -- Popularising Race -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- CHAPTER 11 'The Myalls' Ultimatum': Photography and Yolŋu in Eastern Arnhem Land, 1917 -- Ryko -- Aftermath -- Reverend Watson's Recollections: The 'Other Side' -- The Yolŋu Version -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.