Shifting focus
Subtitle: colonial Australian photography 1850-1920
By: edited by Anne Maxwell and Josephine Croci
Publisher: Australian Scholarly
Published: 2015
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781925003727
Subjects: Photography; Exhibitions; History; Photographers; 19th Century; 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Shifting Focus of Early Australian Photography 1860-1920 / Anne Maxwell and Josephine Croci; title: Framing Exchange: French Images of Australian Aboriginies, 1878-1885 / Catherine De Lorenzo; title: Capturing the Dream: The Beginnings of Photography in the Top End / Kim Smith; title: Selling the Colonial Dream: Photographs from the 1869 Northern Territory Survey Expedition / Kitty Magee; title: The True Story of the 'Capture of Ah Kim at 10.20p.m. on the 11th May, 1875' / James Steele; title: Overlooked and Forgotten: Representations of Aboriginal Pastoral Workers in Nineteenth-Century Victoria / Elizabeth Willis; title: The Interesting Couple: Simon Wonga in 1857 / Jane Lydon; title: An Australian Spiritualist's Personal Cartes-de-visite Album / Martyn Jolly; title: J.W. Lindt's 'Characteristic Australian Forest Scenery' (1875) and the Construction of an Emblematic Australian Landscape / Ken Orchard; title: Cultural Relativity as Exchange: J.W. Lindt's 'Bush Character and Aboriginal' from 'The Grafton Album', circa 1872 / Victoria Garnons-Williams; title: The Bushman and His Bride: J.W. Lindt's 'Australisches Brautpaar' / Nicola Teffler; title: Narrative and J.W. Lindt's 'Picturesque New Guinea' Series, 1885 / Antje Lübcke; title: A Commercial Animal During Times of Social Upheaval: John Davis in Samoa, 1871-1903 / Dirk H. R. Spennemann; title: The Colonial Gaze: Beatrice Grimshaw in the Pacific / Heather Waldroup; title: Analysing Context for Nineteenth-Century Pacific Photography / Geoff Barker; title: Ethnographic Pictorialism and George Brown's Portraits / Prue Ahrens; title: An American in Australia, 1888: Frederic Schnell and the 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' / Erika Esau; title: Photographs in Colonial Australian Illustrated Newspapers / Peter Dowling; title: Thomas McMahon's Pacific Neighbours: An Early Australian Photojournalist / Max Quanchi; title: Out of Sight: R. Vere Scott and R. P. Moore: Forgotten Federation-Era Panoramic Photographers / Gael Newton; title: Celebrities of Theatre and Bohemia: The Stylish Portraits of May and Mina Moore / Anne Maxwell; title: 'That's me up there!': Amateur Photography and Lantern Slide Projection in Edwardian Melbourne / Elizabeth Hartrick; title: Frank Hurley, 'Mirror Room in Golestan, Tehran, 16 April 1944' / Robert Dixon; title: List of Contributors