‘Ten Canoes and the Ethnographic Photographs of Donald Thomson: “Animate Thought” and “the Light of the World”.’

Abstract

This article explores the genesis of the film Ten Canoes in the photographs taken by anthropologist Donald Thomson, in Arnhem Land, in the 1930s. Thomson’s images profoundly informed the look and content of the film, and the paper traces this genealogy in order to identify a ‘cultural imaginary’ at work in the film. I argue that a close study of Thomson’s original photographs reveals an approach to photography and to culture that dramatically exceeds the boundaries of the detached anthropological/scientific gaze. Thomson’s vision is a highly tactile one. His images are as much an encounter with the light of the world as they are a document of a time, an environment and a culture; his lens is as much an organ of touch as an instrument of observation. In a remarkable example of what Tim Ingold has called ‘animate thought’, Thomson uses the materiality of photography to make manifest a life-world in which reeds, water and sky are as animate as human figures. Not easily accessible to established criteria for analysing ethnographic images, such as questions of self-reflexivity, Thomson’s polycentric images profoundly challenge the humanist assumptions of many contemporary approaches to reading images. This insight raises new questions about both ethnographic photography and the relationship between the photographs and Ten Canoes.

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Cultural Studies Review
volume 18 number 1 March 2012
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/index
pp. 107–37
 Anne Rutherford 2012!
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ISSN 1837-8692
Ten Canoes and the Ethnographic Photographs of
Donald Thomson
‘Animate Thought’ and ‘the Light of the World’
ANNE RUTHERFORD
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY
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Figure 1: The film reproduces Thomson’s eye. Left-hand image: Donald Thomson’s original:
Ganalbingu and Djinba men use bark canoes in the Arafura Swamp, central Arnhem Land,
Australia, May 1937, photograph by D.F. Thomson. Right-hand image: Still from Ten Canoes.
Source: Photograph courtesy of the Thomson family and Museum Victoria (TPH 1090); Frame capture: Ten
Canoes, Vertigo Productions, disc 2, extras: ‘Thomson Time’. Reproduced courtesy Fandango Australia.

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Figure 2. Stripping bark for the canoes. Right of frame: Jamie Gulpilil as Dayindi.
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Figure 3. Preparing bark for the canoes. Centre frame: Peter Minygululu as Minygululu.
Source: Frame capture, Ten Canoes, Vertigo Productions 2006; reproduced courtesy of Fandango Australia.

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