Oscar Mallitte's Andaman photographs, 1857-8.
Oscar Mallitte's Andaman photographs, 1857-8.
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奥斯卡·马利特的安达曼照片，1857-8。
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10.1093/hwj/dbn078
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2009
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这篇文章研究了安达曼群岛的第一批照片，这些照片是由摄影师奥斯卡·让-巴蒂斯特·马利特（Oscar Jean-Baptiste Mallitte）在印度政府的一次调查中拍摄的，该调查的目的是为1857年大起义后被判处运输的叛乱者和叛乱者寻找一个流放地。马利特的版画一直被认为已经丢失或被毁，但最近在温莎城堡的女王收藏中被发现。这篇文章将这些照片视为安达曼景观和永久殖民化之前的人民的代表，并重点关注一组深受影响的岛民被调查队绑架并带回加尔各答的图像。由于当时的各种出版物对摄影过程作了较为详细的描述，而且这些照片被广泛复制并作为版画出版，因此这些图像可以用来质疑在群岛的文字和视觉制作和转换过程中所隐含的一些文字和视觉的相互联系和滑动。这篇文章认为，这些照片及其相关的文本--视觉和话语--作为殖民暴力的标志，作为殖民化中使用囚犯强迫劳动的一些矛盾心理的证据，具有巨大的重要性，作为一个“缺失的环节”，使我们能够审查群岛及其人民的一些建设方式，并通过比喻，殖民地的“热带性”。
This article examines the first Andaman Islands photographs, which were taken by the photographer Oscar Jean-Baptiste Mallitte during a Government of India survey whose brief was to find a site for a penal colony for mutineers and rebels sentenced to transportation after the Great Revolt of 1857. The Mallitte prints were long assumed to be lost or destroyed, but recently they have been discovered in the Queen's Collection at Windsor Castle. The article looks at the photographs as representations of the Andamans landscape and peoples just before permanent colonization, and focuses on a deeply affecting set of images of an Islander kidnapped by the survey party and taken back to Calcutta. As the photographic process was described in some detail in various contemporary publications, and because the photographs were widely copied and published as engravings, the images can be used to interrogate some of the textual and visual interconnections and slippages that were implied during the Islands' written and visual production and transformation. The article suggests that the photographs and their connected texts – visual and discursive – are of huge importance as signifiers of the violence of colonization, as evidence of some of the ambivalences that characterized the use of convict forced labour in colonization, and as a ‘missing link’ that enables us to examine some of the ways in which the Islands and its peoples were constructed and represented through the trope of colonial ‘tropicality’.