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How portraiture became popularised before WW2.  From Documentary-style photography, to using it for more artistic purposes.
  - People used to collect photographs of specific interest such as photographs of "Natives" etc. (Henry King).  There has always been a trend of photographing Native Australians, even today. (hmmm, high risk subject... It is slightly perverse how most Aboriginal people are still used as "photographic studies") 
  - Long exposures to capture the ritualistic marks of the Aboriginal People. 
  - Studio Photos instead of actual photos taken within the tribe.
  - During the Gold Rush, photographers became more interested in photographing people in the bush, in their natural environment, Stockmen, Miners etc.  The idea of the Pioneer was very popular.
  - World War I instilled a kind of euphoria in people and the concept of Daily Life was popularised.  Wealthy families sitting on their verandah.  Attitudes towards life had changed drastically and so did attitudes towards photography.  It was no longer just used to take snap shots of daily life, people were discovering it's artistic purposes.  Some of the first Australian Artistic Nudes. (Cecile W. Bostock)
 

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By the 1930's, things were becoming more commercial.  Hollywood was booming and nurtured peoples' romantic/ glamourous side........... until feminism came along.... Freedom and Truth were fundemental concepts in the 60s and 70s. (Carol Jerrems)
  - Shadowy, Brooding with soft-light caressing the cheek.
  - Influences: Asia (the Orient), Parasols and Flowers
  - Fasionable women were photographed for Magazines and Housewives would be photographed and their household displayed in magazines.
  - It was around this time that women were beginning to be used as advertising tools.
  - Then Women's Lib came along... (enough said atm really).  It's all about REALISM and Truth.

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To be continued....  (Bill Henson, Julie Rrap and Anne Zahalka)


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