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.

The book provides a survey of the styles of Australia's built environment. The houses, commercial buildings, churches and other architectural works in Australia are described and illustrated so that you can readily identify and classify them

For the first few decades of the 1800s the Hawkesbury district was one of the major settlements alongside Sydney and Parramatta. During the 19th and early 20th century many fine buildings were established and fortunately a significant number have survived..