Joseph Brooks

  • Artist (Photographer)
Official photographer on the Goyder expedition (1868/1869?), he took several photographs of the Northern Territory coastline and of the planned site of the Darwin township.

Citations

  • Davies, Alan, and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne.

  • Kerr, M. (1971), 'The Surveyors: The Story of the Founding of Darwin’, Adelaide.

  • (1869), Illustrated Sydney News, 07-08.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870