Art in Australia Limited produces Melbourne, a special number of Art in Australia. The company also publishes a series of booklets based on photographs featured in Art in Australia and The Home, including Canberra, Australia, Sydney Streets and Sydney Harbour, which all featured Cazneaux's photography

The Home also spawns a pictorial annual, which was produced until the Second World War.

In Adelaide Oswald Leopold Ziegler, a young journalist whose father specialised in advertising brochures for South Australian resorts, begins the production of illustrated books for Adelaide's The Mail newspaper.

The Second Bridge Book, which featured Cazneaux and other photographers, including Emil Otto Hoppe, whose book The Fifth Continent also appears this year.

Art in Autralia Limited's The Syney Book and The Melbourne Book, published.

Harold Cazneaux and Cecil Bostock work on The Book of the ANZAC Memorial.

Oswald Ziegler embarks on a series of books for Victoria's centennial celebrations.

Ziegler produces the folio-size book, 150 Years, Australia 1788-1938. Among photographers featured are Frank Hurley and Athol Shmith.

Ziegler's Romance in Paradise is the first of his totally pictorial books.

Hurley's Sydney, A Camera Study launches the CameraStudy series.

Ziegler's first attempt to produce an annual Australian Photography, Australian Photography 1947, which was based on a salon held during Newcastle's sesquicentenary in 1947.

Another Ziegler book this year is Penrith, again featuring Max Dupain as principal photographer with at least one (uncredited) Hurley image.

Sydney Ure Smith publishes Max Dupain.

Olive Cotton shares, with Max Dupain, the credit as principal photographer in Helen Blaxland's Flower Pieces.

Dupain's work apppears in Gotham's Canberra, National Capital, Zeigler's Valley of the Winds and Angus and Robertson's 772/s Land of Ours.

Sydney Ure Smith begins his Miniature series shortly before his death. His son, Sam Ure Smith, continues the Ure Smith company.

Ziegler also produces Albury.

Using a series of Rob Hillier's photographs supplemented by Dupain, David Moore, Hal Missingham and others, Ure Smith produces Portrait of Sydney.

Australian Treescapes and Sydney Beaches appear as Ure Smith Miniatures.

The second Soul of a City appears at this time.

Hurley's Queensland, A Camera Study published.

Following the folding of the journal Contemporary Photography (founded in 1946), editor Laurence Le Guay compiles A Portfolio of Australian Photography from the best images featured in the journal.

Victoria, a Camera Study is the last Camera Study to be published.

From this time until his death in 1962 Hurley works on his Natural Colour series.

Australian Publicity Council publishes Land of the Southern Cross.home.

Czech-born Jaroslav Novak-Niemela produces Australia, the Great South Land.

Ziegler's second version of This is Australia.

Lismore is the last of Ziegler's smaller provincial promotions, from now until 1963 his provincial output is in a quarto/hard cover format.

Ziegler also embarks on second (and final) attempt to produce a photographic annual, Australian Photography 1957.

Sydney, a Camera Study revised.

Ziegler's Brisbane, City in the Sun and Symphony on a City.

Centenaries of Queensland and the establishment of local governments in New South Wales result in a busy period for Ziegler.

Edward Steichen's Family of Man exhibition tours Australia.

Ziegler, Kenneth Slessor and Robert Walker produce Life at The Cross.

Gavin Souter and Quinton Davis's Sydney.

Posthumous tribute edition of Hurley's Australia, a Camera Study.

Ziegler and Slessors' Canberra.

Donald Gazzard produces Australia Outrage, using David Pott's photography (and others) to illustrate Australia's decaying urban aesthetics.