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Back to category: Arts Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Images of the Australian Male in photography The idea of the Australian male conjures up many images in people’s minds. The idea of the down-to-earth, rough as guts, honest, hardworking bloke is prevalent in most people’s minds today, but this is not true for everyone, nor has the stereotype been around forever. In fact, conceptions of the ‘Aussie maleâ€ÂEhave developed greatly from the time of our settlement until the present, and different artists have expressed these in many different ways in different eras and movements. Soon after Australia was colonised, the British wanted to be able to see this new land through the use of photography. In this era, photography was used for purposes of documentation, often in a scientific context. However, in this era there was a prevalent mentality to the use of photography, now known as Colonialism, that rather than taking candid photographs or documenting an actual event or occurrence, artists would set up image... Posted by: Tamara Moore Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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