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February 26, 2012
Charles Bayliss was one of the successful late 19th Century Australian professional city photographers who utilised the craft of photography well to provide rich photographic views of the urban environment and the progress of colony. Bayliss is considered to be a leading figure in Australia’s photographic heritage.
Charles Bayliss, View overlooking the Hawkesbury Bridge, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, ca. 1885, NLA
The equivalent today of the railway bridge would be freeways.
The Holtermann panorama is one of the most impressive Australian photographic achievements of the nineteenth century as well as being a visual document which documented and celebrate the city’s progress.
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