Description
SECONDHAND BOOK
The frontier colony of Queensland emerged at about the same time as that miraculous device for recording images – the camera. Now, with the instantaneous click of a shutter, life could be preserved as a fragment of history. These vivid moments, frozen from the past, continue to fascinate in an age dominated by the visual media.
Modern history, in a sense, began with this development, and Australia’s northernmost state provided rich human and environmental drama for the camera. From the everyday family snapshot to the technical daguerreotype, this book contains unblinkered testimony to the sweeping diversity of a pioneering society.
Chosen from numerous private and public collections, the graphic images in this volume include more than 400 photographs, evocatively and provocatively capturing people at work and play.
This book is organised around ten themes ranging from Queensland’s extraordinary ethnic diversity in its first half-century to the tug-of-war politics between capital and labour, the many faces of work and leisure, changing lifestyles, and wartime patriotism. Many of the photographs have never previously been published.
The authors, historians Duncan Waterson and Maurice French, provide a lively and informative text to accompany this, the first comprehensive pictorial history of Queensland.
Specifications:
Condition: Fair – marks and slight tearing to dustjacket, fading on spine.
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year: 1987
Format: Hardback, with dustjacket
Pages: 360pp
ISBN: 0702220752
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