Monday, August 20, 2012

War Photography - Nurses - War Memorial Visit

- In 1916 the federal govt. commandeered specialist photographers to take pics.

-Hubert Williams and Frank Huley first Australian War Photographers, both famous photographers from Antarctica.

- All negs were taken into military history collection

- large part of war photography is negs rather than vintage prints

 - before 1916, the govt relied upon soldiers to bring back images from the battles

- gollipoli was taken by soldiers but soon after cameras were banned

- 20,000 original negs from 1st world war. Plenty more from other wars. The war collection has around 400,000 images (on website)

- use to do neg film on polyester film but have done away, everything is digitised. 5000dpi .tif files.

- act had to be re-written on the eve of 2nd world war to collect more images as act was out dated.

- film camera, more difficult

- studio portraits were taken of 300,00 soldiers for 1st world war

- not many pics from boxer rebellion, images were graphic for the time.

- don't collect everything

- exhibition on nursing






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