04 Aug 2008

Picture Paradise - Asia-Pacific photography 1840s-1940s
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "Picture Paradise - Asia-Pacific photography 1840s-1940s. 11 July - 9 November 2008. [The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia].
This is the first exhibition to survey the history of photography of our region - from India and Sri Lanka, Southeast and East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands to the west coast of North America. It features pioneer local photographers as well as Europeans working in the region. The exhibition reveals the rich heritage and the many outstanding achievements of the first century of photography in the Asia-Pacific region.
This significant gathering of over four hundred original photographs and albums includes gem-like daguerreotype portraits, mass-produced views and portraits on paper made possible by the revolutionary wet-plate and dry-plate glass negative-positive process, and prints from the modern era of small format film cameras and photojournalism."
Site contents:
* About; * Themes (Pioneers: 1840s-60s, The art of photography: 1880s-1910s, Views and portraits: 1860s-80s, Modern times: 1920s-40s, The art of photography: Japan, The art of photography: Ethnographic); * Essay; * Education; * Events.
URL http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/PICTUREPARADISE/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
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