Future Exhibitions

Picturing New South Wales: photographs by Kerry and Co

Commercial photographers with their studio portraits and widely circulating landscape views largely created our vision of Australia, until the Kodak box brownie revolution of the early 20th century.

Charles Kerry ran one of the largest commercial studios in Sydney from 1884 to 1917. His photographers travelled throughout NSW creating a stock of images, picturing the developing towns and scenic locations and capturing a vision of settlement, progress and a seemingly civilised landscape.

Picturing New South Wales reveals the Kerry studio’s vision through a selection from the Macleay Museum’s original Kerry glass negatives collection and historic photographic equipment.

Macleay Museum
30 May 2010 to February 2011