history of representations of Indigenous Australians.

			Creator		Lindt, J. W. (John William), 1845-1926
			Title		Aborig. [sic.] Natives of the Clarence River District New South Wales Photographed By J. W. Lindt, Grafton 1875
			Level of Description		Collection
			Date of Work		1875
			Type of Material		Graphic Materials
			Call Number		PXA 432 (v.5)
			Issue Copy		Digitised :
			Physical Description		Albums : 1 leather bound album (12 photoprints) ; 31 x 27.5
			Contents		1. Man with breatplate and spear, two women, one old and one young by bark shelter 2. Bearded man, seated with loin cloth 3. Man, standing full length fur headdress and fur rug 4. Man, seated with fur headdress 5. Two men, one young, one old, both seated, dressed in trousers 6. Man seated with breastplate and boomerangs, with two women, one old and one young by bark shelter 7. Woman, standing full length, with child seated, to her right 8. Man, seated, half length with feather headdress 9. Young woman, fur headdress and necklace, half length 10. Young man, seated, with boomerangs and skin rug 11. Two women, seated full length, with two children by a bark shelter 12. Bearded man with fur headdress and cloth, standing, full length
			Source		Transfer from Mitchell Library Printed Books collection, Q572.9901/L, 1986
			Signatures / Inscriptions		`Aborig. Natives / of the / Clarence River District / New South Wales / Photographed By / J. W. Lindt, / Grafton / 1875.' -- title page
			General Note		None of the plates is titled. All titles given above are assumed. Lindt took at least sixty photographs in this series of studio portaits of Clarence River Aborigines, although extant albums usually contain fewer than a dozen each. When first published, these studio tableaux were regarded as accurate. Reference: An Eye for Photography: the camera in Australia / Alan Davies. Carlton, Vic : Melbourne University Press, 2004, p.60.
			Topic		Aboriginal peoples (Australians) axes bags boomerangs cicatrices kingplates nulla nullas portraits shields (weapons) spears weapons
			Place		Clarence River (N.S.W.) Grafton District (N.S.W.)
			Persons		Adult Females Adult Males Boys Children Girls
			Digital order no.		Album ID : 846102

When I stop and look at this photograph I see a man with no fear and a man who strongly loves his surroundings.
It is visible to see that the image has been "staged" although the real meaning and emotions within the man in the photo is not "staged". He is in fact very much so showing his real emotions and feelings.
As it was discussed within the text these images by Lindt today would be considered cliched images, although i see this image as being very powerful and strong towards the Aboriginal tribes.
It helps discuss the lifestyle of the Aboriginal tribes and the way they survive.

early photographic processes

Concept and First attempts.

A photography is known as a responsibly stable image made by the effect of light on a chemical substance.

The wording “photography” was not created by just the one man.

The term may have first been used by Antoine Hercules Romuald Florence in 1833.

John Herschel also used the term photography and photograph.

Thomas Wedgwood was one of the fist to record light sensitive images with chemicals.

Joseph Nicephore Niepce tried his very own experiments using paper sensitive and silver chloride.

Around 1816 Niepce created negative images, yet was unsatisfied with the product.

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre was also looking for a means to secure images. Niepce and Daguerre decided to enter partnerships and work on it together.

The experiments began by exposing silver plates with iodine in the back of a camera obscura.

In 1833 Niepe died, leaving his experiments and successful images unpublished.

A few years later on Daguerre discovered another process and named it the Daguerreotype. It was an image that was both positive and negative depending on the angle it was viewed.

Photography on paper

William Henry Fox Talbot began his own experiments in 1834. With his experiments he was able to make the discovery of making the unexposed areas of the image less sensitive.

Hippolyte Bayard invented a direct positive process on paper in 1839.Bayard then tried to claim the invention of photography.

In 1840 Max Petzval designed a faster lens. It was specifically designed for portrait images and then became the basis for portraits for the next 70 years.

1841 Talbot changed chemicals and had then invented the Calotyye meaning “beautiful”.

In the 1840’s to the 1850’s calotypes were made by a small number of photographers.

The business of photography

By the late 1840’s the daguerreotype was being processed commercially in every industrialized nation of the world.

In 1848 Frederick Scott Archer discovered the process of the wet plate process.

The art of photography

Critics failed to see photography as art and this attitude continued for many years.