Description
From the inside cover flap:
‘We have tried to produce something more than a book of old photographs. The drawings and photographs are presented as historical documents which sometimes say a good deal more than the historian’s imagination and descriptive powers can ever achieve.
‘For many people, old photographs evoke a feeling of regret at the passing of days and old ways and a welcome escape from the present, We would prefer our readers to see Fremantle as it was, warts and all. A writer once described photographs as “the skin of the past”. We have tried to provide some of the flesh and bone as well.
‘First and foremost we wanted to sketch the life story of Fremantle…the main criterion for our selection has been the extent to which photographs enrich our sense of the historical continuities of Fremantle and its people.’
Specifications:
Publisher: Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Year: 1985
Format: Hardback, with dustjacket
Pages: 159pp
ISBN: 0909144575
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