Abstract
This article argues that Australian Indigenous art was invented in the early to mid‐1980s by its very challenge to Western conceptions of aesthetics and authorship. To illustrate that claim, the article explores Roland Barthes’s concept of the photograph’s punctum as it relates to a particular press photograph published in 1984.
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