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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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