Bitter Fruit. Australian Photographs to 1963 by Graham-Stewart, Michael & McWhannell, Francis - 2017

Melbourne: Wakefield Press. 2017. 1st ed., quarto, textured cloth boards, dustjacket, colour photographs, b&w photographs, pp 280. Fine condition (new). A collection of early photographs, many previously unpublished, focusing on Indigenous Australians. Photographs by Ernest Lund Mitchell, Nicholas Caire, Charles Kerry, Charles Scott, Maxine Studios (Kalgoorlie), Charles Bayliss and others. 'A breathtaking document of Australia's past ... This publication does not aim to fix interpretations, but relies on the power of the images themselves to convey emotions and to tell stories. It gives a good insight in the life of Aboriginal people. Its captivating record is a start rather than an end point.' - Klaassen, Flinders Ranges Research 1st edition. cloth boards in d.j..

Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some of the highlights from what is arguably the most important private collection of its kind ever assembled; many of the photographs are previously unpublished. A mint copy of this important new publication. Michael Graham-Stewart specialises in gathering up colonial photographs in order to reconstruct the complex stories that such materials encode. His particular interest is in exploring the ways in which photography operates not only as an instrument of oppression, but also as a means of connecting with people of the past. Michael has published several books on photography, including Surviving the Lens: Photographic Studies of South and East… Read More