Bibliograph

The photograph and Australia, Judy Annear ; [with essays by Geoffrey Batchen, Daniel Palmer, Michael Aird, Jane Lydon, Katherine Davidson and Martyn Jolly]

Type

Label

The photograph and Australia, Judy Annear ; [with essays by Geoffrey Batchen, Daniel Palmer, Michael Aird, Jane Lydon, Katherine Davidson and Martyn Jolly]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliography: pages 266-269

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsfacsimiles

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The photograph and Australia

Oclc number

897460459

Responsibility statement

Judy Annear ; [with essays by Geoffrey Batchen, Daniel Palmer, Michael Aird, Jane Lydon, Katherine Davidson and Martyn Jolly]

Summary

From its beginnings in 19th century to today's digital revolution, This book investigates how photography was harnessed to create idea of a nation. It reveals how Australia's view of the world and itself has been changed by advent of photography which paralleled development of colonies and relationships between settlers and Indigenous Australians

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Time : the self-portrait in Australian photography / Daniel Palmer -- Nation: Early Queensland photographers and their Aboriginal subjects / Michael Aird -- People: Photography across cultures / Jane Lydon -- Place: Colonial science and photographic portraits / Kathleen Davidson -- Transmission : Delicious moments: the photograph album in nineteenth-century Australia / Martyn Jolly -- Postscript / Geoffrey Batchen

Target audience

adult

Classification