Richard Daintree: A Photographic Memoir"The first camera in the north of Australia belonged to an enthusiastic amateur photographer, Richard Daintree (1832-78). Pioneer geologist and squatter, discoverer of three North Queensland goldfields, Daintree learnt the photographer's art in Victoria's gold-rush years before he took his camera to the newly-settled Queensland outback. His Queensland photographs are a unique record of the first years of contact between squatters and Aborigines, the birth of a gold-rush, and the infancy of Brisbane and the country towns of the North."--Book jacket. |
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