A Shifting Town: Glass Plate Images Of Clermont And Its People
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Before the age of digital memory, history was preserved in the quiet fragility of glass — and A Shifting Town brings that fragile past roaring back to life through a remarkable collection of glass plate images documenting the town of Clermont, Queensland, and its people. Compiled by Richard and Marguerite Stringer from the collection of G.C. Poulier, this volume presents an extraordinary visual archive of a community shaped by flood, resilience, and the relentless passage of time, capturing the faces, streets, and daily rhythms of a regional Australian town in vivid, luminous detail. Beyond its role as a photographic record, this work stands as a significant contribution to Australian regional history, illuminating the social fabric of outback Queensland at a time when such communities were both isolated and intensely self-reliant. The glass plate medium itself lends the images an almost painterly clarity, transforming documentary snapshots into works of considerable aesthetic power. For historians, collectors, and anyone with ties to Central Queensland, this volume raises a quietly profound question: how much of a town's soul can survive when the town itself is forced to move?
Author: Richard & Marguerite Stringer
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Before the age of digital memory, history was preserved in the quiet fragility of glass — and A Shifting Town brings that fragile past roaring back to life through a remarkable collection of glass plate images documenting the town of Clermont, Queensland, and its people. Compiled by Richard and Marguerite Stringer from the collection of G.C. Poulier, this volume presents an extraordinary visual archive of a community shaped by flood, resilience, and the relentless passage of time, capturing the faces, streets, and daily rhythms of a regional Australian town in vivid, luminous detail. Beyond its role as a photographic record, this work stands as a significant contribution to Australian regional history, illuminating the social fabric of outback Queensland at a time when such communities were both isolated and intensely self-reliant. The glass plate medium itself lends the images an almost painterly clarity, transforming documentary snapshots into works of considerable aesthetic power. For historians, collectors, and anyone with ties to Central Queensland, this volume raises a quietly profound question: how much of a town's soul can survive when the town itself is forced to move?