- 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
