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A singular photograph: Olive Cotton's Sea's awakening

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dc.contributor.authorEnnis, Helen D
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:46:12Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T12:13:47Z
dc.description.abstractIn 1937 Australian photographer Olive Cotton photographed the sea from the headland at Newport Beach, producing Sea's awakening, one of the most sublime images of her career. This essay considers the photograph in depth as part of an ongoing search for developing alternative means of analysing and interpreting photographs. It is premised on the conviction that photographic history is limited as a means of illumination and uses an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from other fields including social history and biography. In addition, concerns with gender, materiality and narrative are explored. The aim of the essay is not to fix the meaning of Sea's awakening, rendering it static but to mobilise it.
dc.identifier.issn1444-3058
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/25677
dc.publisherUniversity of Queensland Press
dc.sourceJournal of Australian Studies
dc.subjectKeywords: Light; Materiality; Modernism; Olive cotton; Photographic history
dc.titleA singular photograph: Olive Cotton's Sea's awakening
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage459
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage449
local.contributor.affiliationEnnis, Helen D, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidEnnis, Helen D, u9503107
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor190101 - Art Criticism
local.identifier.absseo970119 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9903547xPUB39
local.identifier.citationvolume35
local.identifier.doi10.1080/14443058.2011.617382
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84859231969
local.identifier.thomsonID000299270300003
local.type.statusPublished Version

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