by Guest reviewer | Mar 7, 2019 | Book Reviews
Vanessa Finney, Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893 NewSouth Books, 2019, 654 pp., ISBN: 9781742234984, p/bk, AUS$49.99 Let me declare a point of self-interest before I say too much about this insightful and intriguing...
by Lisa Murray | Feb 21, 2018 | Blog
A few weeks ago I talked about the Registry of Flashmen which was compiled by William Miles, a police commissioner who used the latest surveillance techniques of the 1840s to understand the local criminal class. Fast forward 80 years to the 1920s, and New South Wales...
by Rachel Franks | Dec 13, 2017 | Book Reviews, Exhibition Reviews
Underworld: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties, which has just opened at the Museum of Sydney, is an exploration of crime in a decade that heralded the brave new world that emerged from the devastation of World War I. Curated by the indefatigable Nerida Campbell this...
by Dictionary of Sydney | May 27, 2015 | Blog
Photography is an amazing medium. In certain frames it can give us a candid glimpse of everyday life and transport us to another era. This is exactly what happens in an fabulous exhibition currently on at the State Library of New South Wales called Crowds. The...
by Dictionary of Sydney | Jan 8, 2014 | Blog
As you oohed and aahed at the magnificent display of fireworks on New Year’s Eve, did you pause to wonder where it all began? There was debate amongst my friends – was it the turn of the millennium when it all took off, or the bicentennial? Well, the...
