"Along the Wings of a Tornado": the aerial aesthetics of Frank Hurley in Palestine
In 1917 the Australian photographer Frank Hurley, renowned in Australia and Europe as an aesthete for his theatrical photographs of Antarctica, was commissioned as Australia's official First World War photographer. His tour encompassed France, Belgium, and finally Palestine where he, more conce...
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ftunswworks:oai:unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au:1959.4/unsworks_76418 2024-05-19T07:30:39+00:00 "Along the Wings of a Tornado": the aerial aesthetics of Frank Hurley in Palestine Yip, Andrew Crott, Emma 2020-05-01 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_76418 https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/2c21f4d1-34db-438b-abac-b918f01f5934/download unknown http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_76418 https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/2c21f4d1-34db-438b-abac-b918f01f5934/download open access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 CC-BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ free_to_read urn:ISSN:1565-2254 Jerusalem Quarterly, 82, 10-22 journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2020 ftunswworks 2024-04-24T01:04:00Z In 1917 the Australian photographer Frank Hurley, renowned in Australia and Europe as an aesthete for his theatrical photographs of Antarctica, was commissioned as Australia's official First World War photographer. His tour encompassed France, Belgium, and finally Palestine where he, more concerned with visual experimentation than historical documentary, experimented first with color and then aerial photography. Hurley occupied a contested role on the battlefield as an artist engaged in wartime. His blending of artistic techniques with military technologies during the Palestine campaign, at the dawn of aerial imaging, represented a significant moment in the history of photography, and lays bare many of the ethical complexities that concern contemporary aerial images that are synonymous with power and control. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales): UNSWorks |
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In 1917 the Australian photographer Frank Hurley, renowned in Australia and Europe as an aesthete for his theatrical photographs of Antarctica, was commissioned as Australia's official First World War photographer. His tour encompassed France, Belgium, and finally Palestine where he, more concerned with visual experimentation than historical documentary, experimented first with color and then aerial photography. Hurley occupied a contested role on the battlefield as an artist engaged in wartime. His blending of artistic techniques with military technologies during the Palestine campaign, at the dawn of aerial imaging, represented a significant moment in the history of photography, and lays bare many of the ethical complexities that concern contemporary aerial images that are synonymous with power and control. |
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