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April 27, 2012
Paul Foelsche was a policeman based in Darwin in the 19880s when it was known as Palmerston prior to 1911 when it passed to the Commonwealth. Foelsche built a small photographic studio next to his house in Palmerston, and it was here that he made many of his portraits. He also took landscape views:
Paul Foelsche, Palmerston from Fort Hill, March 1887
He had a wagon with his camera, tripod, portable darkroom and chemicals. He often cleared the foregrounds of vegetation and positioning people like actors on a stage.
His preference was for wider, more complex landscape views, rather than close-ups of single subjects.
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