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The striking images featured in Photography and Australia, in the new 'Exposures' series, documents the iconic sights of the rugged Australian landscape such as the imposing Uluru, or Ayers Rock, as well as documentary photographs, wilderness shots, post-mortem studies of bushrangers and other images both quotidian and extraordinary. A leading Australian photography historian, Ennis argues that the colonial experience is a central element of these visual testaments, and embedded within this experience are the tumultuous relations between white settlers and Aboriginal peoples.

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This is a first-rate book. It reproduces some superb and utterly distinctive imagery. Art Newspaper ... prior to Helen Ennis's Photography and Australia arguably only three books of any significance had been published on the topic. Ennis's survey is distinguished however by more than its mere arrival. Central to her inquiry is the argument that photography in Australia has been inescapably shaped by the country's colonial invasion / inception ... One of the most commendable aspects is Ennis's critical analysis of the medium in relation to the complexity of indigenous and settler Australian relations. Source This is an excellent survey of the major developments, practitioners and icons of Australian photography, providing a wide-ranging, inclusive overview ... Generously illustrated with eighty images, and written in a clear, accessible style, seven chapters cover themes and periods ranging across the entire span of photographic practice in Australia since 1841, and constituting a valuable introduction to the medium's main developments in broad historical context. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

This is a first-rate book. It reproduces some superb and utterly distinctive imagery. The only pity is that more photographs were not included. -- Sebastian Smee Art Newspaper (02/01/2008)

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Helen Ennis is Senior Lecturer in Art Theory at the Australian National University School of Art. She was the former Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia and has also independently curated exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, the National Library of Australia, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She is also the author of Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss, and Photography (2005) and Intersections: Photography, History, and the National Library of Australia (2004).

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