ISBN:
9780857287953
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXI, 256 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Dixon, Robert Photography, early cinema, and colonial modernity
DDC:
770.92
Keywords:
Hurley, Frank
;
Photographers Biography
;
Photography History 20th century
;
Cinematography History 20th century
;
Photography Social aspects
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Rezension
;
Hurley, Frank 1885-1962
;
Australien
;
Fotografie
;
Filmtechnik
;
Kolonialismus
;
Krieg
;
Kulturwissenschaften
Abstract:
"Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley became an international celebrity through his reporting of the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, the First and Second World Wars, the England-Australia air race of 1919, and his own expeditions to Papua in the 1920s. This book is an account of his stage and screen practice in the context of early twentieth-century mass media. 'Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity' is not a biography of Frank Hurley the man; it is instead an examination of the social life of the many marvellous and meaningful things he made as a professional photographer and film maker in the early twentieth century: the negatives, photographic prints, lantern slides, stereographs, films, diaries and newspaper articles. His stage and screen practices offer an insight into Australia's engagement with the romance and wonder of international modernity in the early years of the twentieth century. The level of description at which this volume works is not that of personality or the originary events of Hurley's life - the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, and the First and Second World Wars - but the media events he worked so hard and so professionally to create.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]- 246) and index
