Roslyn Poignant obituary

Anthropologist, researcher and writer who became an expert on historic photographsRoslyn Poignant, who has died aged 92, was a fine writer, a respected scholar and a tenacious historical detective. Trained as an anthropologist and historian, she was also a masterful interpreter of photographic evidence. Her forensic yet deeply humane research brought past injustices kicking and screaming into the present.In the 1970s, in archives at the Royal Anthropological Institute in London, she found a photograph of three Indigenous Australian people – a man, woman and child – whom she would come to identify as Billy, Jenny and Toby. Continue reading…
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