William True Bennett

Also known as W. F. Bennett, William F. Bennett
  • Artist (Photographer)
Emigrating from the USA, William True Bennett was a highly regarded photographer who lived and worked mostly in Queensland. The nineteenth-century equivalent to the modern photojournalist, Bennett was highly sought after and arguably the first professional photographer known to have so specifically and comprehensively tackled Queensland - its landscape, Indigenous people and development as a separ

Citations

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

  • Barrie, S. (1988), 'Queenslanders behind the Camera’, Morningside, Qld.

  • Fisher, R. (1985), 'Aspects of early photography in the Moreton Bay region’, Brisbane History Group Papers 3, Brisbane, Qld.

  • (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.

  • (1882), Qld: Rockhampton Laughing Jackass, 04-08.

  • (1883), Sydney, NSW: Bulletin, 06-02.

  • (1884), Argus, 02-27.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions