beautiful, available and empty – how landscape photographers reinvented the colonial project in Australia
- Written by: Jarrod Hore, Co-Director & Postdoctoral Fellow, New Earth Histories Research Program, UNSW
Anson Brothers Studio, Fern Tree Gully, Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1887. Albumen print. Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for squatters and pastoralists and substantial investment in the Australian colonies. In the 1850s, gold...
