Early Photography in Colonial Australia
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Product details:
- Publisher Melbourne University Publishing
- Date of Publication 14 October 2025
- ISBN 9780522883053
- Binding Paperback
- See also 9780522879520
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 234x153 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English 629
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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 medium. Elisa deCourcy considers these early images beyond colonial systems of knowledge and their contemporary role in acts of colonial reckoning and First Nations cultural reclamation.
