Australasian Photo-Review

First page of the Australasian Photographic Review of Reviews, later the Australasian Photographic Review, later the Australasian Photo-Review.

The Australasian Photo-Review was an English language magazine, published for photographers by Baker & Rouse and later Kodak (Australasia), and published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.[1]

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.[2] At this early stage of its publication, the magazine was issued as a short ten to fifteen page supplement to the British edition.[3] In 1895 the magazine's name was changed to Australalasian Photographic Review, and in 1903, the title was shortened to Australalasian Photo-Review.[4]

The first editor-in-chief of the magazine was Edwin J. Welch, who reported the declaration, within the first issue, that Australian photographic works would be reviewed with 'bluntness, perhaps, but no namby pamby'.[4][2] In 1922 Eric Keast Burke became associate editor, and eventually editor, a position he held until the Review ceased publication in 1956.[5] The Review is notable for promoting the work of Australian photographers or 'camerists', as they were referred to as in early editions, and for it's inclusion of high-grade photographic prints.[2][6] In 1952, Eric Keast Burke, while still acting as editor for the publication, rediscovered the wet plate negative collection of Bernhard Otto Holtermann, showing panoramas of Sydney, and the gold-fields of Hill End and Gulgong.[7]

Digitisation

The magazine has been digitised by the National Library of Australia.

References

  1. ↑ "Australasian Photo-review Magazine or periodical". Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Welch, Edwin J (January 1894). "Publisher's Notice". Photographic Review of Reviews (1): 3–4.
  3. ↑ Welch, Edwin (January 1894). "An Australian P.P.R." Photographic Review of Reviews (1): 4. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Caption Title". Australian Photo-Review. X (1): 1. January 1903.
  5. ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  6. ↑ Matthew, Jill Julius. "Australasian Photo-Review periodical". Austlit. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Gold and Silver: Photographs of Australian Goldfileds from the Holtermann Collection, by Keast Burke, Penguin Books Australia, 1973, inside cover; p.2


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