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Pathways to the Past - Images
 
Key Reference

 

Burke, Peter. Eyewitnessing: the uses of images as historical evidence. London: Reaktion Books, 2001.

 

Module References and Further Reading

Annear, Robyn. Nothing but gold: the diggers of 1852. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 1999.

Bonyhady, Tim. The colonial earth. Carlton South, Vic.: The Miegunyah Press, 2000.
Davison, Graeme, '"A vote, a rifle and a farm": unnatural rights and invented histories' in The use and abuse of Australian history, St Leonards NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2000, pp. 238-257.
Downer, Christine & Phipps, Jennifer. Victorian vision: 1834 onwards: images and records from the National Gallery of Victoria and the State Library of Victoria. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1985.
Fletcher, Marion. Costume in Australia, 1788-1901. Melbourne; Oxford University Press, 1984.
Goodman, David. Gold seeking; Victoria and California in the 1850s. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1994.
Joel, Alexandra. Best dressed: 200 years of fashion in Australia. Sydney: Collins, 1984.
Maynard, Margaret. Fashioned from penury: dress as cultural practice in colonial Australia. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
McDonald, John. Federation: Australian art and society 1901-2001. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2001.
McQueen, Humphrey. Tom Roberts. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1996.
Russell, Roslyn & Chubb, Philip. One destiny!: the federation story, how Australia became a nation. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1998.
Smith, Bernard. European vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Thompson, Patricia (ed.). A lady's visit to the gold diggings of Australia in 1852-3 written on the spot by Mrs Charles Clacy. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1963, first published 1853.
Twomey, Christina. 'Without natural protectors: responses to wife desertion in gold-rush Victoria'. Australian Historical Studies, 28, 108 (April 1997): 22-46.
 
Photography, Postcards, Visual Culture, Critiques of Social Documentary Photography

Bate, Weston, McGillivray, Euan & Nickson, Matthew. Private lives - public heritage: family snapshots as history. Hawthorn, Vic.: Hutchinson, 1986.

Bertram, Alexandra & Trumble, Angas. Edwardian Melbourne in picture postcards. Carlton South, Vic.; The Miegunyah Press, 1995.
Bolton, Richard (ed.). The contest of meaning: critical histories of photography. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1989.
Brilliant, Richard. Portraiture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Burgin, Victor (ed.). Thinking photography. London : Macmillan, 1982.
Curtis, James. Mind's eye, mind's truth: FSA photography reconsidered. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1989.
Davidson, james & Lytle, Mark. 'The mirror with a memory' in James West Davidson & Mark Hamilton Lytle, After the fact: the art of historical detection. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, c1986.
Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter. The mechanical eye in Australia: photography 1841-1900. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Elkins, James. The object stares back: on the nature of seeing. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996.
Green-Lewis, Jennifer. Framing the Victorians: photography and the culture of realism. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Greenwald, Maurine. 'Visualizing Pittsburgh in the 1900s: art and photography in the service of social reform' in Maurine W. Greenwald and Margo Anderson (eds), Pittsburgh surveyed: social science and social reform in the early twentieth century, Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1996, 125-152.
Hales, Peter B. Silver cities: the photography of American urbanization, 1839-1915. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
Hirsch, Marianne. Family frames: photography, narrative, and postmemory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c1997.
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Sydney vistas: panoramic views 1788-1995. Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1995.
Journal of Urban History 15, 3 (May 1989), issue devoted to Photography and Urban History.
Koop, Stuart (ed). A small history of photography. Fitzroy: Centre for Contemporary Photography, 1997.
Lee, Anthony W. Picturing Chinatown: art and Orientalism in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Manguel, Alberto. Reading pictures: a history of love and hate. Bloomsbury, 2000.
Martin, G.H. & Francis, David. 'The camera's eye' in Dyos, H. J. & Wolff, Michael (eds), The Victorian city: images and realities, London, Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul [1973].
Mattison, David. 'In visioning the city: urban history techniques through historical photographs'. Urban History Review , XIII, 1 (June 1984): 43-52.
Morris, Bede. Images: illusion and reality. Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 1986.
Petro, Patrice (ed.). Fugitive images: from photography to video. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1995.
Samuel, Raphael. Theatres of memory. London; New York: Verso, 1994.
Sekula, Allan. 'Reading an archive: photography between labour and capital' in Patricia Holland, Jo Spence, & Simon Watney (eds), Photography/politics: two, London: Comedia Pub. Group; New York, U.S.A: Distributed in the U.S.A. by Boyars, 1986.
Sennett, Richard. The conscience of the eye: the design and social life of cities. New Yorl: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Sobieszek, Robert A. Ghost in the shell: photography and the human soul, 1850-2000: essays on camera portraiture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, c1999.
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. Photography at the dock: essays on photographic history, institutions, and practices. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1991.
Sontag, Susan. On photography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1977.
Spence, Jo & Holland, Patricia (eds). Family snaps: the meaning of domestic photography. London: Virago, 1991.
Stange, Maren. Symbols of ideal life: social documentary photography in America 1890-1950. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Stein, Sally. 'Making connections with the camera: photography and social mobility in the career of Jacob Riis'. Afterimage, 10, 10 (1983).
Tagg, John. The burden of representation: essays on photographies and histories. Basingstoke, [England]: Macmillan Education, 1988.
Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American photographs: images as history, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989.
Wells, Liz (ed.). Photography: a critical introduction. London; New York: Routledge, 1997.
 
Cartoons, Caricature, Satire

Arts Council of Great Britain. Cartoon and Caricature from Hogarth to Hoffnung. London, 1962.

Atkinson, Diane. Funny girls: cartooning for equality. London: Penguin, 1997.
Carretta, Vincent. George III and the satirists from Hogarth to Byron. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Christiansen, Peter Norman. 'Bohemian artists and the new woman: the representation of gender identity by Australian black and white artists during the period 1890-1908. MA Thesis, University of Melbourne, 1992.
Clabburn, Anna. 'The relationship between caricature and concepts of Australian national identity, 1900 to the present. MA Thesis, University of Melbourne, Department of Fine Arts, 1997.
Coleman, Peter & Tanner, Les. Cartoons of Australian history. West Melbourne: Nelson, 1978.
Cowling, Mary. The artist as anthropologist: the representation of type and character in Victorian art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Curtis, Lewis P. Jr.. Apes and angels: the Irishman in Victorian caricature. Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1971.
Donald, Diana. The age of caricature: satirical prints in the reign of George III. New Haven: Yale University Press, for Paul Mellon Centre, 1996.
Douglas, Roy. Great nations still enchanted: the cartoonists' vision of empire 1848-1914. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
Fabian, Suzane (ed.) Mr. Punch down under: a social history of the colony from 1856 to 1900 via cartoons and extracts from Melbourne Punch. Richmond, Vic.: Greenhouse Publications, 1982.
Geipel, John. The cartoon: a short history of graphic comedy and satire. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972.
Getlein, Frank & Getlein, Dorothy. The bite of the print: satire and irony in woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs and seriagraphs. London: H. Jenkins, 1964.
Kerr, David S. Caricature and French political culture, 1830-1848, Charles Philipon and the illustrated press. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.
Klingender, F.D. (ed.) Hogarth and English caricature. London: Transatlantic Arts Ltd, 1946.
Lindesady, Vane. It's moments like these … cartoons behind a nation's catchcry. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1979.
Lindesay, Vane. Drawing from life: a history of the Australian Black and White Artists' Club. State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994.
Lindesay, Vane. The inked-in image: a survey of Australian comic art. Melbourne: Heinemann, 1970.
Low, David. British cartoonists: caricaturists and comic artists. London: William Collins, 1942.
Mahood, Marguerite. 'The Australian political cartoon in Victoria and New South Wales, 1855-1901'. MA Thesis, University of Melbourne, 1965.
Mahood, Marguerite. The loaded line: Australian political caricature, 1788-1901. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1973.
Shikes, Ralph E. The indignant eye: the artist as social critic in prints and drawings from the fifteenth century to Picasso. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.
Stone, Walter. 50 Years of the newspaper cartoon in Australia 1922-1973. The News in association with the Art Gallery of South Australian Adelaide, 1973.
Wechsler, Judith. A human comedy, physiognomy and caricature in 19th century Paris. London: Thames and Hudson, 1982.

 

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