The Burton Brothers studio : commerce in photography and the marketing of New Zealand, 1866-1898

Whybrew, Christine M. ; Wolf, Erika ; Wanhalla, Angela

University of Otago

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来源: Otago University Research Archive

【 摘 要 】

The Burton Brothers studio of Dunedin, the most renowned ofNew Zealand;;s colonial photographers, was among the first to present photographs of colonial New Zealand to international audiences. From 1866 to 1898 this studio produced a stock of photographic images that recorded the industrial, social and political progress of the colony. Burton Brothers photographs were produced in series and included topographical views of locations, such as Milford Sound and the King Country, or were targeted to specific projects or events, such as the eruption of Mount Tarawera and the government survey of the Sutherland Falls. Alfred Henry Burton, the studio;;s director, accompanied the Union Steam Ship Company;;s first tourist excursion to Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, and photographs from this series and those of King Country Maori are valued as ethnographic records of indigenous peoples. Now prized as documentary artefacts in institutional collections, the