Early Photography in Colonial Australia | 19.98 MB
Title: Early Photography in Colonial Australia
Author: Elisa deCourcy
Category: Nonfiction, History, Asian, Southeast Asia, Art & Architecture, Photography, Modern
Language: English | 341 Pages | ISBN: 0522879527
Description:
Early Photography in Colonial Australia explores the origins of the photographic culture that continues to shape how we see the world.
From its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings photography was more than just a new technology - it was deeply implicated in the colonial project. The invention of photographic technology coincided with the rise of imperial control across the Pacific, and many of its raw materials were extracted from colonised lands.
This book offers the first major study of photography's arrival and establishment in colonial Australia. It places photographs in conversation with prints, sketches and watercolours to explore how the foreign medium adapted to the Australian environment, artistically and politically. It shows how cameras were put to work, visually redacting Indigenous custodianship and knowledge of Country to celebrate colonial construction and expeditions.
Early Photography in Colonial Australia reveals the complex power of the...
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