Abstract

Iconography proves to be a precious documentary source to analyse the notion of power in the Pacific. In following Maurice Agulhon's researches, an historian who declared that "political history and visual history enlighten each other", this article considers how in Tahiti, sites of power are constructed and represented (Agulhon : 405). Thus through an interpretative study of still images produced about (and in) Oceania can be retraced the history of these monuments of Papeete and perceived the values underlying architectural transformation.

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