This volume surveys the rich photographic history of Australian photography during the first half of the 20th century. The photos cover all the genres of the period from fashion and portraiture to modernist visions of street life, still lifes, and nudes. Photographers include Cecil Bostock, Harold Cazneaux, Max Dupain, Hans Hasenpflug, Laurence Le Guay, David Moore, David Potts, Athol Shmith, and others. Edited with text by Gael Newton; foreword by Edmund Capon. 140 pages; 120 full-page b&w plates plus 10 text illustrations; 8.75 x 11.5 inches. Photographers bios.