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Author Holden, Bob, author

Title Photography in colonial Australia : the mechanical eye and the illustrated book / Robert Holden
Edition Limited to 1000 copies
Published Potts Point, N.S.W. : Hordern House, 1988

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 ADPML GENEA  770.994 Hol/Pic  LIB USE ONLY
Description viii, 172 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
Summary Photography in Colonial Australia examines the Australian books of the nineteenth century that use original photographs as a means of illustration. For the first time in Australia, Robert Holden has assessed the importance of photographically illustrated books. Part One of Photography in Colonial Australia is an historical survey, looking at issues like colonisation through photography and whether it was a nineteenth-century photographer's role to create images like an artist, or to accurately recreate the image before the camera's eye like a mirror. Part Two of the work focuses on a range of photographic genres; specifically royalty, Aborigines, exploration and travel, science, varia and art. Any person with an interest in photography, nineteenth-century social history, illustrated books, or bibliography will find this work an invaluable reference. Sixty-five photographic illustrations and a full bibliography of 130 items makes Photography in Colonial Australia the standard cited source, and this important text is further enhanced by an extensive index of photographers and publishers
Notes Available from The Manager, Hordern House, 77 Victoria Street, Potts Point, N.S.W. 2011
Includes index
Limited edition of 1000 copies
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 165-166
Subject Illustrated books -- History -- 19th century -- Bibliography.
Illustrated books -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Bibliography.
Illustrated books -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
Photobooks -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Bibliography.
Photography -- Australia -- History -- Bibliography.
Photography -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Bibliography.
Photography -- Australia -- History.
Books, Illustrated.
Genre/Form Bibliographies.
LC no. 88215498
ISBN 0958847878