City Streets: Progressive Adelaide 75 Years on

by Lance Campbell

"When South Australia was 100 years old, Gustav Hermann Baring celebrated with style. His mammoth publication Progressive Adelaide - As It Stands To-day was both a catalogue of commerce and a labour of love. In 1936, Hermann Baring captured the State and its capital in pictures. For all time. Inspired by Progressive Adelaide, photographer Mick Bradley and writer Lance Campbell set out in Baring's footsteps. In images and words, City Streets is progressive Adelaide today. This is a unique book about a unique city. For all time."

167 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully detailed, you are shown the original image from Baring c 1936 and then a photograph from 2011. This is both a celebration of the now and a homage of the past. I like that the authors are not all stuck in the 19th C and love a variety of architectural styles, although I really wish we never built anything in the 1980/90s - has there been a worse period for architecture?

I also enjoyed the little extras of some advertisements, as well as details about past tenants and the history of the some of the buildings. This is a substantial book that would be enjoyed by anyone that has an interest in the history of Adelaide.