A new exhibition at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra will showcase the diverse works of government photographers who documented life in Australia between 1939 and 1996.
Between 1939 and 1996 the government hired dozens of photographers to document life around Australia . Now many of their diverse works of intimate nature photography, striking architectural shots and captured everyday memories from Australia 's past will be displayed in a new exhibition at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra .
Curator of the Focus: Australian government photographers exhibition Emily Catt said the job of government photographers 80 years ago was to "create a photographic library of Australia". "If you think about now, if you want to know something about a country, you go online and you google search it and you're going to get great results quite easily," she said. "In 1940 if you want to know about a country, how do you get information? And that's where the Department of Information and their successes really came i
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