Their success was due in part to Hurley having cornered a market—'there were
no competitors'. The photographs caught 'Australia for Australians'. At the same
time, they were the means by which successive waves of postwar immigrants ...
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Language: en
Pages: 85
Pages: 85
Hurley's Australia showcases his impressive visual celebration of Australia in the period immediately after the Second World War. In his mission to capture Australia for Australians he travelled throughout the country photographing its vast landscape, its modern cities, its industrial strength and its agricultural riches. The vision he created captures,
Language: en
Pages: 468
Pages: 468
Photographer, filmmaker, writer, adventurer. Controversial, passionate, audacious. Frank Hurley was an extraordinary Australian, possibly most famous for his Antarctic photographs captured alongside expeditioners Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. From the early twentieth century until his death in 1962 Hurley created a stunning visual archive that chronicled the major
Language: en
Pages: 121
Pages: 121
Drawing on the extensive collection of the National Library of Australia, this book highlights the fingerprints humans have left on the landscape through the lenses of Australia's greatest photographers. Roger Mcdonald has written an insighful introductory essay as well as extended captions describing his response.
Language: en
Pages: 1079
Pages: 1079
This is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumiere brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). Previously published in three volumes, entries have been edited and updated for the new, concise edition and three new entries
Language: en
Pages: 141
Pages: 141
Frank Hurley is best known for his stunning Antarctic photographs. Here, Helen Ennis discusses some of his most famous images and the conditions in which they were taken.