Shutter City: Fragments of a Forgotten Melbourne - Couverture rigide

Annear, Robyn

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ISBN 10 : 0522881777 ISBN 13 : 9780522881776

Editeur : Melbourne University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Suppose that you could travel back in time to a Melbourne city street from 150 years ago or even longer. What might meet your eye that has eluded history's gaze? Shutter City presents city street views spanning the hurly-burly decades of the 1850s to 1870s, between the gold rushes and Marvellous Melbourne. Robyn Annear peers into every shadowy corner to reveal postcard streetscapes as miraculous time-capsules, packed with hidden-in-plain-sight historical detail. Her discoveries - she calls them 'sparks' - illuminate and decode each of Shutter City's street views. Among the sightings: barbers' poles, drinking fountains, the three gilded balls of a pawnbroker's sign, gleaming white cups at a coffee stall, street-vendors' carts, neighbourhood dogs (and a cat), assorted ghosts, and ladders - lots of ladders. Let Shutter City be your time-machine and Robyn Annear your guide: her lively and insightful commentary weaves the street views and their 'sparks' into a vivid narrative of a near-forgotten Melbourne and the photographers who captured it.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robyn Annear has been ransacking Melbourne's history for thirty years. Her books include Bearbrass, A City Lost & Found (Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne) and Adrift in Melbourne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Melbourne University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0522881777
• ISBN 13: 9780522881776
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Pays-Bas