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| '''''Totem and Ore''''' is a collection of 5 000 photographs taken by ] in 1960s and early 1970s. The photographs were taken in northern and central Australia. The collection is about tragedy of Australian Aborigines - the people who lived through dual tragedy, the mining of uranium and the subsequent British nuclear testing in that area. A part of confronting photographs of this collection (90) was originally published in Germany in the 1980s <ref>{{citation|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-cold-war-spy-the-photographer-and-hidden-history-from-a-big-land-20061111-ge3jnl.html|title=The Cold War spy, the photographer, and hidden history from a big land|first=Larry|last= Schwartz|date=11 November 2006|newspaper=]}}</ref> and , in 2006, published as a nonfictional book by Dingo Books in Australia.<ref>{{citation|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19555175?q&versionId=22977970+31715818|title=Totem and ore : a photographic collection |first=B.|last= Wongar|date= 2006|publisher = Dingo Books|access-date=2020-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{citation|doi=10.20764/asaj.27.0_80|journal=Journal of Australian Studies|first=Tomoko|last=Ichitani|year=2014|volume=27|pages=80–93|title=Nuclear issues and Australian literature : B. Wongar's photographic collection and "nuclear cycle"}}</ref> | '''''Totem and Ore''''' is a collection of 5 000 photographs taken by ] in 1960s and early 1970s. The photographs were taken in northern and central Australia. The collection is about tragedy of Australian Aborigines - the people who lived through dual tragedy, the mining of uranium and the subsequent British nuclear testing in that area. | ||
| During debate in Australian Parliament on the second report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, an exhibition of this photograps collection at the Parliamentary Library in Canberra, in September 1974. Two days after opening, the exibition was banned by the government authorities. | |||
| A part of confronting photographs of this collection (90) was originally published in Germany in the 1980s <ref>{{citation|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-cold-war-spy-the-photographer-and-hidden-history-from-a-big-land-20061111-ge3jnl.html|title=The Cold War spy, the photographer, and hidden history from a big land|first=Larry|last= Schwartz|date=11 November 2006|newspaper=]}}</ref> and , in 2006, published as a nonfictional book by Dingo Books in Australia.<ref>{{citation|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19555175?q&versionId=22977970+31715818|title=Totem and ore : a photographic collection |first=B.|last= Wongar|date= 2006|publisher = Dingo Books|access-date=2020-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{citation|doi=10.20764/asaj.27.0_80|journal=Journal of Australian Studies|first=Tomoko|last=Ichitani|year=2014|volume=27|pages=80–93|title=Nuclear issues and Australian literature : B. Wongar's photographic collection and "nuclear cycle"}}</ref> | |||
| In 2019, Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) academic and filmmaker John Mandelberg was released a documentary film, Totem & Ore, inspired by, but not a replication of the Wongar’s book. For Mandelberg, it has been a journey explained as, | In 2019, Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) academic and filmmaker John Mandelberg was released a documentary film, Totem & Ore, inspired by, but not a replication of the Wongar’s book. For Mandelberg, it has been a journey explained as, | ||
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| Author | B Wongar |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Carnegie, Vic. : Dingo Books |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| ISBN | 0-9775078-0-7 |
| OCLC | 83977621 |
| Dewey Decimal | 305.89915 22 |
| LC Class | U264 .W66 2006 |
Totem and Ore is a collection of 5 000 photographs taken by B Wongar in 1960s and early 1970s. The photographs were taken in northern and central Australia. The collection is about tragedy of Australian Aborigines - the people who lived through dual tragedy, the mining of uranium and the subsequent British nuclear testing in that area. During debate in Australian Parliament on the second report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, an exhibition of this photograps collection at the Parliamentary Library in Canberra, in September 1974. Two days after opening, the exibition was banned by the government authorities.
A part of confronting photographs of this collection (90) was originally published in Germany in the 1980s and , in 2006, published as a nonfictional book by Dingo Books in Australia.
In 2019, Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) academic and filmmaker John Mandelberg was released a documentary film, Totem & Ore, inspired by, but not a replication of the Wongar’s book. For Mandelberg, it has been a journey explained as,
I was fascinated by his story. He was from Eastern Europe and wrote fiction like an Aboriginal about the clash between white people and Aborigines. His first three novels became known as ‘the nuclear trilogy’ and they told a grim story about the testing that took place in the 1950s. He showed that uranium dislocated communities where testing took place.
Mandelberg's documentary had its world premiere at the Hiroshima International Film Festival on 24 November 2019.
References
- Schwartz, Larry (11 November 2006), "The Cold War spy, the photographer, and hidden history from a big land", The Age
- Wongar, B. (2006), Totem and ore : a photographic collection, Dingo Books, retrieved 8 February 2020
- Ichitani, Tomoko (2014), "Nuclear issues and Australian literature : B. Wongar's photographic collection and "nuclear cycle"", Journal of Australian Studies, 27: 80–93, doi:10.20764/asaj.27.0_80
- New film depicts nuclear issues as a problem for humanity, 8 November 2019
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