Shooting the picture : press photography in Australia / Fay Anderson and Sally Young ; with Nikki Henningham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Fay, 1931- author.

Young, Sally, author.

Contributor:

Henningham, Nikki, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photojournalism--Australia.

Photojournalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 359 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Australia : The Miegunyah Press : The Miegunyah Press, 2016.

Summary:

Shooting The Picture i s the story of Australian press photography from 1888 to today—the power of the medium, seismic changes in the newspaper industry, and photographers who were often more colourful than their subjects. This groundbreaking book explores our political leaders and campaigns, crime, war and censorship, international events, disasters and trauma, sport, celebrity, gender, race and migration. It maps the technological evolution in the industry from the dark room to digital, from picturegram machines to iPhones, and from the death knock to the ascendancy of social media. It raises the question whether these changes will spell the end of traditional press photography as we know it.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Foreword

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Photographer Biographies

1 Press Photography in Australia, 1880-2015

2 From the Darkroom to Digital

3 Behind the Lens: Working Lives

4 International Events and the View from Australia

5 Australians, Allies and the Enemy

6 Campaigns and Leaders

7 Media Power and Photographs

8 Photographing Social Change

9 'The Talent': Visual Narratives of Women, Children and Celebrity

10 Crime and the Body

11 Scorched Earth: Disaster and Trauma

12 Sports Photography

13 Shooting the Picture: Then and Now

Endnotes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522868562

0522868568