IDNO

P.156306.RPT

Description

Portrait of a man wearing a woven hat in a bar in Uturoa. [LA 17/01/2023]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; French Polynesia; Society Islands; Raiatea; Uturoa

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

1969

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.156292.RPT - P.156365.RPT were located in a box of prints numbered C1037/.

Publication: Image published in Adams, G. Kernohan, K. Bell, E. and Ovens, G. 2023. 'Anthropologists and Photographers: The Poignant and Elliott Collections'. MAA Digital Lab blog post with the caption 'Figures 1 and 2. Left – A contact print showing photographs from Raiatea by Axel and Roslyn Poignant, 1969. Poignant Collection. MAA P.157340.RPT. Right – An enlargement of a portrait of a man from Raiatea by Axel and Roslyn Poignant, 1969. Poignant Collection. MAA P.156306.RPT.' [source: https://www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2023/07/11/anthropologists-and-photographers-on-the-poignant-and-elliott-photographic-collections/]MAA Facebook: Image published on 14th July 2023 with the caption: "Having both a photographer’s print and their negatives can provide a fascinating insight into their creative process. In cases where the finished print was cropped a negative can provide invaluable contextual details. This was clearly demonstrated in recent projects to digitalise two mid-20th century photographic collections. The Roslyn and Axel Poignant collection includes over 17,500 photographs from the Pacific, Malaysia, and Sicily, whilst Alan Elliott’s collection from Singapore contains 1,800 images.
To find out more about the Poignant and Eliott collections, and the insights of the four photographic collections assistants who have been working with them, check out our latest #DigitalLab blog post:
https://www.maadigitallab.org/.../anthropologists-and.../
P.157340.RPT Contact print showing photographs from Raiatea by Axel and Roslyn Poignant, 1969.
https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/photographs/450815
P.156306.RPT Enlargement of a portrait of a man from Raiatea by Axel and Roslyn Poignant, 1969.
https://collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/photographs/449773
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