Joseph Docker b. 1802

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  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Photographer Joseph Docker is thought to have taken the earliest surviving calotypes in Australia. With his photographer son, they took many images of the Australian landscape and did much to support the emerging photographic industry in early Australia.
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References [<ExternalResource: Docker, E (1972), 'Joseph Docker', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 4, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: (1868), Australian Journal 2, 09-12.>, <ExternalResource: (1884), Sydney Mail, 12-27.>, <ExternalResource: Docker, E.B., 'Reminiscences', Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney: manuscript.>]