Description
Second Hand Book
In 1930 the renowned German-born, British photographer Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972) travelled across Australia gathering pictures for what would be a landmark photobook called The Fifth Continent, published in both English and German the following year.
In his introduction to The Fifth Continent, Hoppé noted how he had been warned there was little to photograph in Australia, that he would deplete the subject in six weeds. Instead, he spent nearly a year in Australia and was overwhelmingly enthusiastic about the country and its people. He included images not only of the cities, towns and their locals but also European settlers and indigenous people in central and far west Australia.
Publication of The Fifth Continent made E O Hoppé the first foreign photographer to produce a photo-book on the entire nation of Australia. While many hundreds of photographers had made hundreds of thousands of images of different places and had photographed notable journeys, including the rugged transcontinental trips by pioneer motorist Francis Bibles before World War 1, in 1931 no local photographer had published an equivalent, all encompassing work.
Specifications:
Condition: Fair, some foxing on the pages, orange cloth cover intact with some minor marks
Publisher: Simpkin Marshall Pty Ltd, London
Year: 1931
Format: Hard cover
Pages: 160
ISBN: N/A
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