Joseph Warrin Wilder

  • Artist (Photographer)
Male colonial Queensland pioneer tabloid photographer who had a knack for shooting murderers before they had committed their crimes, and a habit of selling copies to the public after they were convicted.

Citations

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

  • Abbay, O. J. (1980), 'Rockhampton: A Bibliography to 1975’, Rockhampton, Queensland.

  • Fisher, R. (1986), '“Through a glass darkly”: Photographers and their role in the Moreton Bay region before 1860’, Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, vol. 12, no. 3.

  • (1877), 'Hopkins’ Rockhampton Almanac’, Rockhampton, Queensland.

  • (c.1869), Rockhampton Bulletin.

Initial data sources

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