State Library of New South Wales

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The State Library of New South Wales' major subject strengths are Australian history, culture and literature, including Aboriginal studies, Antarctic exploration, family history and genealogy, business and management, social sciences, applied science, biography, health and law. The State Library is home to one of Australia’s most significant historical and heritage collections. As well as nearly 11 kilometres of manuscripts – from nine 1788 First Fleet journals through to the archives of contemporary organisations and writers – the Library holds more than one million photographs. From the earliest surviving photograph taken in Australia – in January 1845 – through to digital photographs taken last month, the Library’s unrivalled photographic collections document with powerful clarity the way Australians have lived their lives over two centuries. You can find out more about the State Library's photographic collections on our website: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and-collections

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Australia’s oldest contortionist David Mitchell, 1942

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  • bill doyle said:
    wild!

The dawn of Passchendale. The Relay Station near Zonnebeke Station, 1914-1918 / Frank Hurley

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  • stormrider98 said:
    breathtakingly brilliant...
  • gt_hawk63 said:
    One of those pictures worth many thousand words.
  • Peter Hill said:
    This is a typically fake photograph by Hurley. When he took the photograph it was a cloudless sky. Not content with the drama of the scene of wounded Australian soldiers, he added the clouds from another photograph to manufacture this one. I use this particular monstrosity to demonstrate "drama" in my presentations on monochrome photography and how a cloudless sky is irrelevant if the drama exists in the subject, because that is where the viewer's eye goes. Hurley wrote in his diary of his arguments with Bean over his manufactured drama and how he felt that faking it was the only way to show it. He totally did not 'get it'.

Soldiers washing, still from the film, 'Forty Thousand Horsemen'

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  • Peter Hill said:
    Chips Rafferty on the right, Grant Taylor in the middle. Pat Twohill on the left?

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