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Australian

19th Century     |    20th Century 

 

Gael Newton AM

Gael's Bio 

Gael's articles, essays, papers (many papers and essays on Australian, Asia-Pacific, Southeast Asia and more)

Gael's Blog

 

Gael's Online Publications:

Shades of Light: Photography and Australia 1839-1988

Silver and Grey:  Fifty years of Australian photography 1900 - 1950

Australian Pictorial Photography  1979

Picture Paradise 2008:  Asia - Pacific Photography 1840s-1940s (  2025 online version)

Garden of The East: Indonesian photography 1840s-1940s  (2025 online version of the catalogue)

 

Research / Papers

List of papers, articles, essays and research documents - various links;
some also listed below (open to consider additional papers/ and relevant research links)

Papers by Robert Deane: including Eveleen Myers 1856 - 1937;
Foreign Influences in Australian Photography; Photography in Serach of The Bible; Camera Work 1903-1917; Colour Photography in the Asia Pacific; and Photographs of France by Robert Deane.

 

Biographies

(see also Gael Newton's articles, essays, papers)

John Kauffmann: Australian photographer 1864 - 1942

Robert McFarlane: A series of links about Robert, Australian photographer 1942 - 2023

Frank Hurley: James Francis Hurley photographer 1885 - 1962

Charles Bayliss - Australian Photographer (1850-1897)

Developing Photography: A History of the Australian Centre for Photography1973-2013
Toby Meagher, Research Paper–June 2013

Road Work Ahead:  A study of road photography in Australia    Belinda Hungerford 2010

Harold Cazneaux: Australian Photographer  1878-1953

Camera Work 1903 - 1917   Robert Deane

Carol Jerrems  links to resources about Carol Jerrmes and her photography

Max Dupain - a page with links to many resources on Max

Townsend Duryea 1823 - 1888

Sublime Souls & Symphonies, Australian PhotoTexts 1926–1966, Eric Riddler 1993

Sydney Ure Smith: Australian publisher 1887 - 1949

Curators & Photographers: first photography curators (Australian)
Jennie Boddington, Ian North, Gael Newton, Alan Davies

Australia Pictorialism

 

Group M:

  Albert Brown, Australian photographer, foundation member of Group M

  George W Bell: Australian painter & photographer,  1920 - 2008

  Group M: Moggs Creek Clickers, Australian photographers based in Melbourne 1959 – late 1960s

  Deeper Feeling, Wider Vision, a 1996 thesis by Philip Bentley on Group M photographers (Moggs Creek Clickers)

 

Wesley Stacey:

  Wesley Stacey:  Landscape of Virtue: The Life & Work of Photographer Wesley Stacey, Ziv Cohen, Research Paper 2003

  Wesley Stacey - a selection of photographs from Wesley's career

 

Oswakd Zeigler:

  Oswald Ziegler & the commercial application of contemporary Australian Photography in mid 20th Century, Eric Riddler 1990

  Oswald Zeigler: A page of illustrations representing some of Zeigler's publications

 

Asia- Pacific

a separate web site on asia-pacific-photography

Indonesian photography

Towards Independence: A Century of Indonesia Photographed

Photograms of the Year: a collection of photographs from the magazines

The Japanese photography collection

Biographies:

  Shapoor Bhedwar  - parsi pictorialist photographer (India, active 1890s - 1900s) 

  Thilly Weissenborn, early 20th century photographer in Dutch East indies - now Indonesia.

  Daisy Wu - (Daisy Yuk Hu Ching Wu) Hong Kong photographer (born in Hawai'i 1912 - died HK 1994)

  Majorie Doggett - Singapore photographer, born England 1921- died Sing 2010

  John Thomson - a few photographs

  August Sachtler (a few photographs)

  Loke Hong Seng, Singapore photographer

 

Books and Albums online

A range of photo-books (some listed below):

Melbourne By Night:  published by Art In Australia Ltd - Sydney Ure Smith, in 1934.
Photographs by W.L. Lucke-Meyer - with text by Basil Burdett.

A Book About Australian Women: This book was originally published in 1974 by Outback Press
whose permission was granted in 2015 for this online version

Views of Sydney circa 1890s (a reproduced photographic album)

the BANKS album (this album has been sold)

 

Special links

Prahan Photography: Australian 1970s students and teachers at Prahran College (Melbourne)

Women and Photography 20th Century

Women of the Colonies (a selection of CDVs)

Some links to useful resources - click here

a link to several areas of interest (some repeated above)

a couple of photography exhibitions

 

Our Web Sites

Asia Pacific Photography

Paul's blog - many topics: A Word or Two

Gael's Blog

about photo-web

 

Early Australian women painters  NOT Photography!!

Mary Meyer - early 20th century woman painter 
Alma Figuerola - 20th century woman painter 

 

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