Professor Christopher Wright: Echo of Things sku-23836071

Part of the Objects/Histories series, The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands is Professor Christopher Wright's study of what photography means to people in Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. He examines how they use photographs today and respond to images made by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Roviana people regard photographs as singular objects rather than reproducible images; their ability to channel ancestral power connects photography with memory and history. The hardcover includes Roviana people's accounts and asks readers to reconsider their own views of photography. Listed under Oceanic History Books. SKU: sku-23836071.