Author: Carter, Jeff.
Publisher: Rigby Limited, Adelaide.
Format: Hardcover quarto with dust jacket, beige cloth boards, 181pp, 29.5 x 24cm.
First edition.
Jeff Carter’s documentary photographs of the Australian bush are presented alongside his frank observations of our regional towns. His sympathetic camera shows us a view of Indigenous Australians that was rarely reflected in 1960s publications, and of the unwitting cruelty of some white Australians upon the land and animals, such as the image of a man sparring a kangaroo, captioned “A grazier west of Bourke spars with a giant red kangaroo he has just chased to the point of exhaustion in a Jeep.”
Jeff Carter’s (Australian, 1928–2010) photographs are held in nearly every major collecting institute in Australia.
Missing portions to dust jacket, especially spine area, book very good.
