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