Agents Of Empire. How E.L. Mitchell's Photographs Shaped Australia

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 260 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: For nearly 100 years, E.L. Mitchells emblematic photographs have shaped ideas about Australia. But who was Mitchell and why did he succeed above his competitors With unprecedented access to private collections and showcasing his extraordinary photographs, Agents of Empire charts Mitchells rise from his struggles as a migrant in New South Wales and Queensland to significant image-maker in Western Australia. It then follows the journeys of individual photographs across the world, and traces the stories behind the survival and destruction of parts of his archive. Agents of Empire breaks new ground in showing ways that photographs can be used as historical evidence and how archives can shape our understanding of the past.

ISBN: 9781925333732