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Installation view : photography exhibitions in Australia (1848–2020)

by Daniel Palmer, Martyn Jolly

This volume examines the history of Australian photography through its public exhibitions and collections from the colonial period to the present. Essays and installation views document the institutions and individuals that have shaped the display of the medium.

Accession 9781922545008 ISBN 9781922545008 Publisher Perimeter Editions

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Topics and Themes

1. **History of Photography in Australia**
The book traces Australian photography from its earliest colonial incarnations in 1848 through to the contemporary digital era of 2020, charting how the medium evolved in a distinctly Australian cultural context. It attends to both celebrated and overlooked moments, recovering a rich, mostly unexplored national history of the medium.

Connect to books about: history of photography, Australian art history, colonial visual culture, photographic technology.

2. **Exhibition-Making & Curatorial Practice**
At its heart the book is a study of how photographs have been selected, arranged, and presented to publics over nearly two centuries. It examines the constantly mutating conventions through which photographers and curators have shaped the viewer's encounter with images, including questions of scale, wall arrangement, and gallery design.

Connect to books about: curatorship, exhibition design, museology, the art of display.

3. **Institutions, Collections & the Public Circulation of Images**
A central concern is the role that galleries, museums, and other institutions have played in legitimising and disseminating photography. The book traces how individual collectors and public bodies proved essential to establishing photography as a serious cultural form in Australia.

Connect to books about: museum studies, collecting practices, cultural institutions, art patronage.

4. **Colonialism & Visual Culture**
Spanning from 1848, the book engages directly with photography's role in colonial record-keeping and the construction of Australian identity. It interrogates how images produced under colonial conditions have shaped — and continue to shape — cultural memory and historical understanding.

Connect to books about: postcolonial theory, colonial photography, settler-colonial history, Indigenous representation.

5. **Photography & Digitisation / New Media**
A key driver of the research was understanding how new digital technologies are transforming the curation and circulation of photographic art. The book addresses the challenges institutions face in engaging with digital and online forms of photography, from photo-sharing platforms to virtual exhibitions.

Connect to books about: digital photography, new media art, online curation, digital archives.

6. **The Sociology of Art & Artistic Reception**
By focusing on installation views — images of audiences inside exhibition spaces — the book foregrounds the social life of photographs: the ghostly figures of viewers, the spaces they inhabit, and the ways institutional and design imperatives interact with a photographer's intentions.

Connect to books about: sociology of art, audience studies, art world theory, spectator and the gaze.

7. **Photography & Collaboration**
The book sits within a broader scholarly conversation, explored by co-author Daniel Palmer elsewhere, about photography as a fundamentally collaborative and social practice — involving photographers, curators, institutions, designers, and audiences rather than solitary artists.

Connect to books about: collaborative art practice, collective authorship, creative labour, photography and community.

8. **Historiography & the Archive**
By assembling rarely seen installation views and rescuing forgotten exhibitions from obscurity, the book is itself an archival and historiographical project — one that questions what gets remembered, what gets omitted, and how visual histories are constructed and contested.

Connect to books about: archival theory, art historiography, memory studies, visual history methodology.

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