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Sinbad the Photographer

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November 2002, no. 246

Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas by Helen Ennis

NLA, $34.95 pb, 107 pp

Sinbad the Photographer

by
November 2002, no. 246

During a career that lasted almost sixty years, Frank Hurley (1895–1962) produced thousands of negatives and more than sixty films. He also wrote some twenty books and was an avid diarist. A number of biographies have been written on Hurley, and Helen Ennis, in Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas, makes no attempt to revisit territory covered in these earlier publications, choosing to focus on a particular aspect of Hurley’s oeuvre: the photographs he took outside Australia. She draws on the extraordinary holdings of Hurley photographs in the National Library of Australia. The book comprises more than seventy full-page images illustrating the range of Hurley’s international work. It also complements John Thompson’s Hurley’s Australia: Myth, Dream, Reality, published by the NLA in 1999.

Susan van Wyk reviews 'Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas' by Helen Ennis

Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas

by Helen Ennis

NLA, $34.95 pb, 107 pp

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