| Description |
xxvii, 296 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The Shifting Focus of Early Australian Photography 1860-1920 / Anne Maxwell and Josephine Croci -- Framing Exchange: French Images of Australian Aboriginies, 1878-1885 / Catherine De Lorenzo -- Capturing the Dream: The Beginnings of Photography in the Top End / Kim Smith -- Selling the Colonial Dream: Photographs from the 1869 Northern Territory Survey Expedition / Kitty Magee -- The True Story of the 'Capture of Ah Kim at 10.20p.m. on the 11th May, 1875' / James Steele -- Overlooked and Forgotten: Representations of Aboriginal Pastoral Workers in Nineteenth-Century Victoria / Elizabeth Willis -- The Interesting Couple: Simon Wonga in 1857 / Jane Lydon -- An Australian Spiritualist's Personal Cartes-de-visite Album / Martyn Jolly -- J.W. Lindt's 'Characteristic Australian Forest Scenery' (1875) and the Construction of an Emblematic Australian Landscape / Ken Orchard -- Cultural Relativity as Exchange: J.W. Lindt's 'Bush Character and Aboriginal' from 'The Grafton Album', circa 1872 / Victoria Garnons-Williams -- The Bushman and His Bride: J.W. Lindt's 'Australisches Brautpaar' / Nicola Teffler -- Narrative and J.W. Lindt's 'Picturesque New Guinea' Series, 1885 / Antje Lübcke -- A Commercial Animal During Times of Social Upheaval: John Davis in Samoa, 1871-1903 / Dirk H. R. Spennemann -- The Colonial Gaze: Beatrice Grimshaw in the Pacific / Heather Waldroup -- Analysing Context for Nineteenth-Century Pacific Photography / Geoff Barker -- Ethnographic Pictorialism and George Brown's Portraits / Prue Ahrens -- An American in Australia, 1888: Frederic Schnell and the 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' / Erika Esau -- Photographs in Colonial Australian Illustrated Newspapers / Peter Dowling -- Thomas McMahon's Pacific Neighbours: An Early Australian Photojournalist / Max Quanchi -- Out of Sight: R. Vere Scott and R. P. Moore: Forgotten Federation-Era Panoramic Photographers / Gael Newton -- Celebrities of Theatre and Bohemia: The Stylish Portraits of May and Mina Moore / Anne Maxwell -- 'That's me up there!': Amateur Photography and Lantern Slide Projection in Edwardian Melbourne / Elizabeth Hartrick -- Frank Hurley, 'Mirror Room in Golestan, Tehran, 16 April 1944' / Robert Dixon -- List of Contributors |
| Summary |
The essays collected here examine a wide range of photographs produced in Australia and the Pacific between 1850 and 1920 |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
General |
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Tertiary/Undergraduate |
| Subject |
Australian essays.
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Photographers -- Australia -- History -- Exhibitions.
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Photography -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Photography -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Photography -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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Photography -- Australia -- History -- Exhibitions.
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Photography -- Australia -- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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Photography -- Australia -- Afghanistan -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Photography -- Australia -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Croci, Josephine, editor
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Maxwell, Anne, 1951- editor
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| LC no. |
2014482881 |
| ISBN |
9781925003727 |
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