‘Fit to Print: Defining Moments from the Fairfax Photo Archive selected by Mike Bowers’ is a new exhibition of historical images that has just opened at the National Library of Australia.
Boy and dog in a billycart race past other children on a suburban street, Sydney, ca. 1920s. One of the images in the new exhibition. (Source: National Library of Australia.)
The images on display were chosen by renowned Australian photojournalist, Mike Bowers, from a collection of more than 18,000 photographs in the Fairfax Archive of glass-plate negatives. Published in newspapers such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun and The Sydney Mail between 1890 and 1948, these images trace the art and craft of photojournalism from its infancy, through the development of visual storytelling, to the highly illustrated news stories we know so well today. The collection was donated to the library in 2012 and many of the images have not been on public view for more than a century. Most have never been displayed in their full format.
Fit to Print: Defining Moments from the Fairfax Photo Archive selected by Mike Bowers opened on 27 February and will be on display until 20 July 2025. Click here for more information.
