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'In this haunting novel, Cameron's life changes when he retreats to a small community in the Westernport swampland. The landscape becomes his obsession and photographs reveal unsettling images from the past.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
The Photographic Eye: The Camera in Recent Australian FictionPaul Genoni,
2002single work criticism — Appears in:
Antipodes,Decembervol.
16no.
22002;(p. 137-141)Genoni discusses Australian novels, published largely in the late 1990s, that feature 'a character who is a cameraman or woman, sometimes professional, sometimes amateur, but to whom the world is framed, filtered and focused through the lens, the viewfinder, and the zoom.' He concludes, 'if we accept that space is produced by discursive practices, then we must question whether the text that is embedded in over 150 years of photgraphic production has not shaped an imagination that encounters space in terms of time as well as, or perhaps rather than, place.'
The Photographic Eye: The Camera in Recent Australian FictionPaul Genoni,
2002single work criticism — Appears in:
Antipodes,Decembervol.
16no.
22002;(p. 137-141)Genoni discusses Australian novels, published largely in the late 1990s, that feature 'a character who is a cameraman or woman, sometimes professional, sometimes amateur, but to whom the world is framed, filtered and focused through the lens, the viewfinder, and the zoom.' He concludes, 'if we accept that space is produced by discursive practices, then we must question whether the text that is embedded in over 150 years of photgraphic production has not shaped an imagination that encounters space in terms of time as well as, or perhaps rather than, place.'
