Talk:Charles Nettleton

Here are some useful resources for researching Charles Nettleton

• Cato, Jack (1977). The story of the camera in Australia (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Institute of Australian Photography.ISBN 0959683909. (available in the Hub at PSC)
• Crombie, Isobel; Van Wyk, Susan (2002). 2nd sight: Australian photography in the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria. ISBN 0724102116. (available in the Hub at PSC)
• Newton, Gael (1988). Shades of Light. Canberra: Australian National Gallery. ISBN 0642081522. (available in the Hub at PSC)
• Willis, Anne-Marie (1988). Picturing Australia: a history of photography. North Ryde: Angus and Robertson.ISBN 0207155992. (available in the Hub at PSC)

Louibu (talk) 20:07, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

• You will also find good information here: http://www.daao.org.au.
• And you will also find good information here: http://adb.anu.edu.au.

Louibu (talk) 03:54, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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Charles Nettleton (1826–1902) was an English-born Australian photographer who documented the rapid development of Melbourne and the state of Victoria during the nineteenth century. After emigrating to Australia in 1854, he photographed the first steam train journey in Australia and was later commissioned to record major public works, railways, buildings, waterways and shipping. Working mainly with the wet plate process, he produced extensive views of Melbourne and published some of Australia's earliest photographic souvenir albums. Nettleton also served as a police photographer, his work including an 1880 portrait of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly on the eve of his execution. He exhibited internationally, including in London and Paris, before retiring in 1890 after the rise of dry plate photography. This photograph of Nettleton was taken in the mid-to-late-1890s by a photographer from the Talma & Co. studio.

Photograph credit: Talma & Co.; restored by Adam Cuerden

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