Local Colour
Travels in the Other Australia
Published on 31. December 1996
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-86064-096-4 (ISBN)
Description
The "other" Australia is a little-known world. Photojournalist Bill Bachman has roamed the faraway places of Australia exploring the half-forgotten expanses that exist in reality as well as national myth. His photographs and the text he weaves around them blend fact with anecdote, history and humour. The book explores themes ranging from the topography of faces, and the special place of corrugated iron in Australian culture, to the bogus glamour of the stockman's life. He celebrates the open road, redefines the romance of the swag, muses on the unwritten history of wayside junk, and marvels at the outback sky.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
colour halftones throughout, map, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 285 mm
Width: 280 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86064-096-4 (9781860640964)
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Content
Local colour; windows down and shirt open; worlds unto themselves; these are the hands; stories untold in a landscape of junk; they're racing at Landor; sky, like a sea above; Australia's iron curtain; faces are landscapes of their own; a rural rite of passage; the romance of the swag; dogs? they run the country; trees as men walking; they're racing at Flemington; light that blinds, light that blesses; living the life; a motley menagerie; cut-price miracles; the endless cycle.