Frank Hurley's World War I photography

Alison Wishart
Frank Hurley's photographs of the western front in 1917 and the Middle East in 1918 are arresting and iconic.

Footnotes and references

Footnotes

  1. Frank Hurley war diary, MLMSS Box 5, 23 August 1917, p. 18.
  2. Frank Hurley war diary, MLMSS Box 5, 23 August 1917, pp. 20-21.
  3. Frank Hurley war diary, MLMSS Box 5, 23 August 1917, 20 September 1917, p.88.
  4. Millar, David P. 1984. From Snowdrift to Shellfire: Capt. James Francis (Frank) Hurley 1885–1962. Sydney: David Ell Press, p.58
  5. Australasian Photo-Review, 15 Feb, 1919, p.164.
  6. C.E.W. Bean war diary vol. 165, p.72, quoted in Millar, p. 52.
  7. See David Millar From Snowdrift to Shellfire, ch.6; Shaune Lakin, 2006. Contact: Photographs from the Australian War Memorial Collection. Canberra: Australian War Memorial pp.69-71; and Martyn Jolly, ‘Australian First World War photography: Frank Hurley and Charles Bean’, History of Photography, no. 23, Summer 1999, pp. 141–8, quoted in David Millar, p.61.
  8. Frank Hurley war diary, MLMSS Box 5, 29 December, 1917, p.87.
  9. Frank Hurley war diary, MLMSS Box 5, 31 December, 1917, p.91.
  10. Frank Hurley war diary, MLMSS Box 5, 8 January, 1918, p.104.
  11. Frank Hurley war diary, MLMSS Box 5, 18 January, 1918, p.122.
  12. David Millar From Snowdrift to Shellfire, p.64.
  13. The Australasian Photo-Review, 15 February, 1919, p.165.
  14. Susan van Wyk, 'The Grim Duties of France: Frank Hurley and the exhibition of enlargements official war photographs',  Art Journal, issue 51, National Gallery of Victoria, 2012, p.44.
  15. Susan van Wyk, The Grim Duties of France: Frank Hurley and the exhibition of enlargements official war photographs',  Art Journal,  issue 51, National Gallery of Victoria, 2012, p.45.

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