Archive Apparitions

deCourcy, Elisa

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Archive Apparitions

Date

2022

Authors

deCourcy, Elisa

Publisher

The Australian National University

Abstract

I am the primary author of this exhibition catalogue, which is research informed and referenced. It was written in conjunction with a series of portraits I made in collaboration that consider the history and personalities of early colonial Australian photography. Each portrait has an extended entry situating it historically, and in relation to Australian collection material. Honorary Associate Professor Martyn Jolly (ANU) wrote a concluding reflective essay