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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Agents of Empire : How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia
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'For nearly 100 years, E.L. Mitchell’s emblematic photographs have shaped ideas about Australia. But who was Mitchell and why did he succeed above his competitors?

'With unprecedented access to private collections and showcasing his extraordinary photographs, Agents of Empire charts Mitchell’s rise from his struggles as a migrant in New South Wales and Queensland to significant image-maker in Western Australia. It then follows the journeys of individual photographs across the world, and traces the stories behind the survival and destruction of parts of his archive.

'Agents of Empire breaks new ground in showing ways that photographs can be used as historical evidence and how archives can shape our understanding of the past.' (Publication summary)

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[Review] Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia Catherine Robinson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Archives and Manuscripts , vol. 47 no. 2 2019; (p. 283-284)

'Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia is a fascinating biography of commercial photographer Ernest Lund Mitchell, intertwined with a detailed examination of how his photographs, particularly of Western Australia and Queensland, were used to promote Australia to the Empire. The work is based on author Joanna Sassoon’s PhD thesis and journal articles. (Introduction)' 

[Review] Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia Catherine Robinson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Archives and Manuscripts , vol. 47 no. 2 2019; (p. 283-284)

'Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia is a fascinating biography of commercial photographer Ernest Lund Mitchell, intertwined with a detailed examination of how his photographs, particularly of Western Australia and Queensland, were used to promote Australia to the Empire. The work is based on author Joanna Sassoon’s PhD thesis and journal articles. (Introduction)' 

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