Australasian Photographic Review of Reviews

The ''Australasian Photo-Review'' was an English language magazine, published for photographers by Baker & Rouse and later Kodak (Australasia), and published in Sydney, Australia 1894–1956.

History

The magazine was first published in 1894 as the Australian edition of the ''British Photographic Review of Reviews'', after the photographic supply company Baker & Rouse purchased the Australasian publishing rights. At this early stage of its publication, the magazine was issued as a short ten to fifteen page supplement to the British edition. In 1895 the magazine's name was changed to ''Australalasian Photographic Review'', and in 1903, the title was shortened to ''Australasian Photo-Review''. The first editor-in-chief of the magazine was Edwin J. Welch F.R.G.S., F.R.C.I., who declared in the first issue that Australian photographic works would be reviewed with 'bluntness, perhaps, but no namby pamby'. Walter Burke F.R.P.S. was Editor. In 1922 Walter's son Eric Keast Burke became associate editor and, in 1943 editor, a position he held until the ''Review'' ceased publication in 1956''Australian Dictionary of Biography''.
Retrieved 6 June 2014. with the last issue released in December.

Content

The ''Review'' was notable for promoting the work of Australian photographers or 'camerists', as they were referred to in early editions, and for its high-grade reproduction of photographs. At a time when the nation's history of photography was scant and under-appreciated, Keast Burke's series of historical articles included articles on pioneering Australian photographers

John William Lindt John William Lindt (1845–1926), was a German-born Australian landscape and ethnographic photographer, early photojournalist, and portraitist. Early life and arrival in Australia Johannes Wilhelm Lindt (often referred to in the literature sim ...

and

Charles Kerry Charles Henry Kerry (3 April 1857 – 26 May 1928) was an Australian photographer noted for his photographs that contributed to the development of the Australian national psyche and romance of the bush. Early life and career Kerry was born o ...

and on his 1953 discovery, in a shed in Chatswood, New South Wales, B. O. Holtermann’s collection of wet-plate negatives; all gold-fields photographs by

Charles Bayliss Charles Bayliss (1850-4 June 1897), photographer, was born in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England in 1850.Beaufoy Merlin to whom he devoted several issues of AP-R, and later published ''Gold and silver : an album of Hill End and Gulgong photographs from the Holtermann Collection'' in 1973. His father Walter had also been historically minded and both Keast's son Quentin, and wife Iris, assisted in research and article writing for the ''AP-R''.

Jack Cato John Cyril "Jack" Cato, F.R.P.S. (4 April 1889 – 14 August 1971) was a significant Australian portrait photographer in the Pictorialist style, operating in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the author of the first history of Aust ...

consulted extensively with Keast in writing his 1955 history ''The Story of the Camera in Australia''. Having formally retired in 1960, from 1961 to 1969 Burke was the first editor and then art director of ''Australian Popular Photography'' (later named ''Australian Photography'')

Digitisation

The magazine has been digitised by the

National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...

References

External links

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