Beyond Sentimentality: The Family as Patron, Subject and Author of Early Photography in Colonial Australia
This article investigates the first decade and a half of photographic practice in the Australian colonies from the perspective of family participation in the portrait marketplace. The article argues that this period has largely been narrated around determining the point of photography's arrival...
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ftanucanberra:oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/316823 2024-05-12T08:03:45+00:00 Beyond Sentimentality: The Family as Patron, Subject and Author of Early Photography in Colonial Australia deCourcy, Elisa application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1885/316823 https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2022.2113245 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/316823/3/Beyond%20Sentimentality%20%20The%20Family%20as%20Patron%20%20Subject%20and%20Author%20of%20Early%20Photography%20in%20Colonial%20Australia.pdf.jpg en_AU eng Taylor & Francis Group 0308-7298 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/316823 doi:10.1080/03087298.2022.2113245 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/316823/3/Beyond%20Sentimentality%20%20The%20Family%20as%20Patron%20%20Subject%20and%20Author%20of%20Early%20Photography%20in%20Colonial%20Australia.pdf.jpg © 2022 The authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution licence History of Photography daguerreotype photography patent Australia Thomas Bock(1790–1855) George Barron Goodman (?–1851) Lawson Insley (dates unknown) colonial portraiture Journal article ftanucanberra https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2022.2113245 2024-04-17T14:01:08Z This article investigates the first decade and a half of photographic practice in the Australian colonies from the perspective of family participation in the portrait marketplace. The article argues that this period has largely been narrated around determining the point of photography's arrival. This approach risks underplaying both the significant innovation and entrepreneurship that defined early photographic practice in this part of the British Empire and how photographic culture engaged with settlers' dispossession of First Nations land. This is not to say that early colonial Australian photography developed in isolation. Rather, the evasion of early British photography patents, as well as Australia's geographic location diluted the perpetuation of the English studio model in this part of the world. This, in turn, impacted the kinds of individuals who practised as daguerreian photographers in the colonies and – because of the appetites of colonial society, particularly settler families – the types of photographic products offered. Keywords: daguerreotype, photography patents, Australia, Thomas Bock (1790–1855), George Barron Goodman (?–1851), Lawson Insley (dates unknown), colonial portraiture Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Australian National University: ANU Digital Collections Goodman ENVELOPE(-72.232,-72.232,-75.240,-75.240) History of Photography 46 2-3 98 117 |
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This article investigates the first decade and a half of photographic practice in the Australian colonies from the perspective of family participation in the portrait marketplace. The article argues that this period has largely been narrated around determining the point of photography's arrival. This approach risks underplaying both the significant innovation and entrepreneurship that defined early photographic practice in this part of the British Empire and how photographic culture engaged with settlers' dispossession of First Nations land. This is not to say that early colonial Australian photography developed in isolation. Rather, the evasion of early British photography patents, as well as Australia's geographic location diluted the perpetuation of the English studio model in this part of the world. This, in turn, impacted the kinds of individuals who practised as daguerreian photographers in the colonies and – because of the appetites of colonial society, particularly settler families – the types of photographic products offered. Keywords: daguerreotype, photography patents, Australia, Thomas Bock (1790–1855), George Barron Goodman (?–1851), Lawson Insley (dates unknown), colonial portraiture |
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