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A Century of Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s - 1940s

Tanya Court
- 01 Sep 2008 - 
- Iss: 213, pp 21
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A century of focus: South Australian photography 1840s - 1940s is discussed in this paper, where photographic depiction of the unique qualities of particular landscapes, especially in regard to their role in recording time, is considered.
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The review and analysis of a recent exhibition 'A century of focus: South Australian photography 1840s - 1940s' is discussed. The exhibition will serve as a lens, narrowing the aperture, to consider the photographic depiction of the unique qualities of particular landscapes, especially in regard to their role in recording time.

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Dissertation

Captain Sweet’s colonial imagination: the ideals of modernity in South Australian views photography 1866 - 1886.

Karen Magee
Abstract: ......................................................................................................................................... v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................................................... vii LIST OF PLATES ................................................................................................................................ ix ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................................................................. xxiii CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Introduction ......................................................................................................... 1 Literature ............................................................................................................. 4 Methodology ..................................................................................................... 22 Introduction to Thesis ....................................................................................... 31 CHAPTER TWO CAPTAIN SWEET’S EARLY LIFE AND CAREER .......................................... 35 CHAPTER THREE CAPTAIN SWEET’S PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS ........................................ 65 CHAPTER FOUR CAPTAIN SWEET AND THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN VIEWS TRADE ........... 119 CHAPTER FIVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS: MAPPING MODERNITY .......................................... 141 The Northern Territory: Imagining Modernity ................................................. 142 Agriculture & Pastoralism, Industry & Infrastructure: Modernity in Action ...... 186 Social Infrastructure: Modernity Realised ...................................................... 200 What Sweet Did Not Photograph: A Selective Reality ................................... 210 City Views & Civic Buildings: Celebrating Modernity and Metropolis ............. 229 CHAPTER SIX THE USE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SWEET’S PHOTOGRAPHS ................. 243 CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION ............................................................................................. 257 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................................... 263
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