Beyond Sentimentality: The Family as Patron, Subject and Author of Early Photography in Colonial Australia

• Published in: History of Photography
• Main Author: deCourcy, Elisa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: daguerreotype; photography patent; Australia; Thomas Bock(1790–1855); George Barron Goodman (?–1851); Lawson Insley (dates unknown); colonial portraiture; Goodman; First Nations
• Online Access: 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

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...