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RECOMMENDED READING

CAPTAIN SWEET

Pike, P & J Moore, Captain Sweet's Adelaide, Longwood Media Pty Ltd, Adelaide, 1983

EARLY AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Barrie, S, Australians Behind the Camera : directory of early Australian photographers, 1841 to 1945, Sandy Barrie, Sydney South, 2002

Davies, A, An Eye for Photography: The Camera in Australia, Miegunyah Press and State Library of New South Wales, Carlton, Victoria and Sydney, 2004

Davies, A & P Stanbury, The Mechanical Eye in Australia: photography 1841-1900, Melbourne, 1985

Ennis, H, Intersections: photography, history and the National Library of Australia, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2004

Holden, R, Photography in Colonial Australia: the mechanical eye and the illustrated book, Hordern House, Potts Point, NSW, 1988

Newton, G, Shades of Light: photography in Australia 1839-1988, Australian National Gallery and Collins Australia, Canberra and Sydney, 1988

Noye, RJ, Early South Australian Photography, published by the author, Saddleworth, South Australia, 1968

Noye, RJ, Photohistory SA, Art Gallery of South Australia, 9 September 2005, viewed 9 August 2006, http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/noye

Robinson, J, A Century in Focus: South Australian photograph 1840s - 1940s, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2007

Sierp, A, Colonial Life in South Australia: 50 years of photography 1855-1905, Rigby Ltd, Adelaide, 1969

Willis, AM, Picturing Australia: a history of photography, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1988

HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY & EARLY PROCESSES

Auer, M, The Illustrated History of the Camera: from 1839 to the present, trans. DB Tubbs, Fountain Press, Station Road, England, 1975

Baldwin, G, Looking at Photographs: a guide to technical terms, Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 1991

Batchen, G, Burning with Desire: the conception of photography, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997

Coe, B & M Haworth-Booth, A Guide to Early Photographic Processes, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983

Monckhoven, D van, A Popular Treatise on Photography also a Description of, and Remarks on, the Stereoscope and Photographic Optics, Etc. Etc., trans. WH Thornthwaite, PhD, FCS, Virtue Brothers & Co, London, 1863, viewed 1 April 2009, http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/monckh/notes.html

Peres, MR (ed.), The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edn., Focal Press, USA, 2007

Reilly, James M, The Albumen & Salted Paper Book: the history and practice of photographic printing, 1840-1895, Light Impressions Co., Rochester, 1980, viewed 4 March 2006, http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/reilly/index.html

Towler, John, The Silver Sunbeam, Joseph H Ladd, New York, 1864, facsimile edn. of Morgan and Morgan Inc., Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 2nd printing, 1974, viewed 1 April 2009, http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/sunbeam/index.html

Warner Marien, M, Photography: a cultural history, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2002

CARING FOR EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS

Weinstein, RA & L Booth, Collection, Use, and Care of Historical Photographs, American Association for State and Local History, 1977

SAMUEL SWEET // NORTHERN TERRITORY

Samuel Sweet
Roper River Camp
albumen silver photograph
1872, Roper River, Northern Territory
Private collection

 

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