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Book

Authors
Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter
Title
The mechanical eye in Australia: photography 1841-1900
Secondary Author
with assistance from Con Tanre
Imprint
Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, xi, 270 p : ill., facsims., ports pp
ISBN/ISSN
ISBN: 0195546040
Description

"An illustrated history, with a comprehensive listing of professional and amateur nineteenth-century Australian photographers." (Amazon)

"The Mechanical Eye in Australia is a unique book about the history of early Australian photography, from the first recorded photograph of 1841 to 1900, when the availability of pocket cameras put photography within the reach of all Australians. Illustrations drawn from collections throughout Australia - many of them never before published - illustrate the changing technology of photography, from the early daguerrotypes, through the vast variety of methods used in the 19th century, to dry-plate photography. The photographers represented include Charles Bayliss, Beaufoy Merlin and Freeman Brothers, and less well known ones such as the amateur Louisa How." (GoodReads)

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