Shooting the picture: press photography in Australia

Abstract

Shooting the Picture is the story of Australian press photography from 1888 to today -- the power of the medium, seismic changes in the newspaper industry, and photographers who were often more colourful than their subjects. This groundbreaking book explores the political leaders and campaigns, crime, war, and censorship, international events, disasters and trauma, sport, celebrity, gender, race and migration. It maps the technological evolution in the industry from the dark room to digital, from picturegram machines to iPhones, and from the death knock to the ascendancy of social media. It raises the question whether these changes will spell the end of traditional press photography as we know it.

Contents

1 Press Photography in Australia, 1880-2015 -- 2 From the Darkroom to Digital -- 3 Behind the Lens: Working Lives -- 4 International Events and the View from Australia -- 5 Australians, Allies and the Enemy -- 6 Campaigns and Leaders -- 7 Media Power and Photographs -- 8 Photographing Social Change -- 9 'The Talent': Visual Narratives of Women, Children and Celebrity -- 10 Crime and the Body -- 11 Scorched Earth: Disaster and Trauma -- 12 Sports Photography -- 13 Shooting the Picture: Then and Now.