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SUBLIME SOULS & SYMPHONIES

Australian PhotoTexts 1926–1966

Eric Riddler 1993

 

Based on an original thesis submitted as part of the requirement of the Masters of Arts - University of Sydney.
Click here for the direct link to the University of Sydney page and the full thesis (25MB)

This online version is the 2021 verson of Eric Riddler's 1993 thesis
For this 2021 version extra images have been added into the text that align with topics being mentioned.


Table of Contents

 

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................   4

CHAPTER ONE  ~  HISTORY
1.1  The  History  of a  History ..................................................................................................    7
1.2  The Classics; Max Dupain's Australia and the earlier use of some of the images .............  10

CHAPTER TWO  ~  PUBLISHERS
2.1  Sydney   Ure Smith ............................................................................................................  13
2.2  Oswald  Leopold  Ziegler ...................................................................................................  16

CHAPTER THREE  ~  MOVEMENTS
3.1  The Views Trade ...............................................................................................................  20
3.2  Pictorialism   ......................................................................................................................  21
3.3  Modernism.........................................................................................................................  23
3.4  Documentary   ..................................................................................................................  27

CHAPTER FOUR  ~  THE NATIONAL IMAGE
4.1  Cazneaux's Australia; or "of rugged mountain ranges"...exclusively   ..............................  29
4.2  Emil Otto Hoppe's The Fifth Continent  ............................................................................ 30
4.3  Ziegler's  Australia  tomes   .............................................................................................  34
4.4  The Ektachrome Centre, Hurley's Australia, a Camera Study  ........................................  38
4.5  The New Australia, as seen in other books on Australia  .................................................. 40

CHAPTER FIVE  ~  METROPOLITAN LIFE
5.1  The quest for a typical Australian city   ............................................................................  43

CHAPTER SIX  ~  SYDNEY
6.1   Sydney in general  .........................................................................................................  48
6.2  Strength-Beauty-Simplicity; The Sydney Harbour Bridge  ...............................................  54
6.3  Life on a harbour wave; Sydney at leisure  .....................................................................  58

CHAPTER SEVEN  ~  MELBOURNE
7.1  Melbourne in general.  ....................................................................................................  64
7.2  Accidently  Collins  Street  ................................................................................................ 68

CHAPTER EIGHT  ~   OTHER CITIES
8.1 Canberra and the politics of being capital   ......................................................................  70
8.2  Brisbane, the capital of Queensland and the Gold Coast, the capital of Austerica  .........  75
8.3  Newcastle, and provincial New South Wales   ..................................................................  79
8.4  Ziegler's post war provincial publications  ........................................................................  82

CONCLUSION  ........................................................................................................................ 83

CHRONOLOGY  ....................................................................................................................  98

 

 

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