Author: COUPE, ROBERT.
Title: Australia: The Photographer's View. From the 1850s to the Bicentenary.
Description: First Edition; 4to; pp. 303; profuse b/w illustrations throughout, acknowledgements, original blue cloth boards, title in gilt on spine, dustjacket with small closed tear otherwise a very good copy. Melbourne, Longman Cheshire Pty Limited, 1987. The book traces almost a century and a half of Australian history as seen and recorded by photographers of all classes and calibres. It is at once a celebration of achievements and an arresting visual record of times both good and bad.

Keywords: Australia art photography view pictorial history general