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Shooting the Picture: Press Photography in Australia
Young, Sally, Anderson, Fay
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Description for Shooting the Picture: Press Photography in Australia
Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; AJCR; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 718.
Shooting the Picture is the story of Australian news photography since the 1960s, the power of the medium, the seismic changes in the newspaper industry and how images capture society, identity and place. Taking a thematic approach, this groundbreaking book explores the visual representation of our political leaders and campaigns, crime and the body, war and censorship, the international stage, climate and disaster, place, sport, gender, race, lost children and welcome and unwelcomemigrants. The themes will also parallel the technological evolution in the industry from the dark room to digital, from the birth of the commerical camera to the iPhone,and ... Read more
Shooting the Picture is the story of Australian news photography since the 1960s, the power of the medium, the seismic changes in the newspaper industry and how images capture society, identity and place. Taking a thematic approach, this groundbreaking book explores the visual representation of our political leaders and campaigns, crime and the body, war and censorship, the international stage, climate and disaster, place, sport, gender, race, lost children and welcome and unwelcomemigrants. The themes will also parallel the technological evolution in the industry from the dark room to digital, from the birth of the commerical camera to the iPhone,and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
359
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522868555
SKU
V9780522868555
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-28
About Young, Sally, Anderson, Fay
Fay Anderson lectures in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. Sally Young is a Reader in Political Science and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow for 2014-17.
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