CONSERVATION IN FOCUS

摘要

In Tasmania, the link between photography and the environment is legendary. TASMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS first pointed their lenses at the wild in the 1860s, when Morton Allport lugged fragile glass plates into the state's centre to produce images of LakeSt Clair. In the years that followed, the landscape photography tradition grew. Photographers such as the Spurlings and John Watt Beattie brought their images to public awareness through magic lantern shows, whereby images were projected onto screens when exposed glass plates were placed in lantern boxes.