Collection: Reference

The book looks at how photography was used to create idea of a nation. It reveals how Australia's view of the world and itself has changed by photography which paralleled development of colonies & relationships between settlers and Indigenous Australians.

More than 400 entries, each with a biographical sketch, sample photographs, a list of selected exhibitions, and a bibliography of the most influential photographers of the last century and their finest monographs

The pictures form a narrative of a life rich in contrasts and continuities. The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family.

In 1894 Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from Oodnadatta to Borroloola and took an amazing 500 glass-plate photographs.....

This edition examines international photography across the full range of its uses by both professionals and amateurs. It looks at the work of Roger Fenton, the rise of the constructed narrative, and how modern society envisions itself in relation to war.

Traces the remarkable evolution of the scientific discipline that considers among other things, matter and energy, atomic theory, space and time, and waves and particles. See the separate threads of physics developing and coming together...