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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Portraits of our Elders
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A 1991 collection of photographs of Indigenous Peoples taken between the 1860s and 1925. Portraits of our Elders argues that the camera is a tool of dominant society, the lens being aimed by those with hegemony at those who are oppressed by it. 

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[Review] Portraits of our Elders Joe McDonald , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , April vol. 2 no. 1 1995; (p. 92-93)

— Review of Portraits of our Elders Michael Aird , 1993 single work multimedia

'In 1991, Michael Aird curated an exhibition of photographs taken in studios between the 1860s and 1925 of Aboriginal people living in Queensland and northern New South Wales regions. Fortunately, rather than limit the public exposure of such a unique set of images to a relatively brief display at the Queensland Museum, he later combined those photographs with others from personal collections to create this special, intimate publication Portraits of our Elders. While a selective rather than comprehensive view of photographs of the period, this collection presents a series of compelling portraits of individuals who indeed 'look beyond the situation they are in' (vii) and encourage us to do the same.' (Introduction)

[Review] Portraits of our Elders Joe McDonald , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , April vol. 2 no. 1 1995; (p. 92-93)

— Review of Portraits of our Elders Michael Aird , 1993 single work multimedia

'In 1991, Michael Aird curated an exhibition of photographs taken in studios between the 1860s and 1925 of Aboriginal people living in Queensland and northern New South Wales regions. Fortunately, rather than limit the public exposure of such a unique set of images to a relatively brief display at the Queensland Museum, he later combined those photographs with others from personal collections to create this special, intimate publication Portraits of our Elders. While a selective rather than comprehensive view of photographs of the period, this collection presents a series of compelling portraits of individuals who indeed 'look beyond the situation they are in' (vii) and encourage us to do the same.' (Introduction)

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