Alice “Minnie” Berrington, Coober Pedy Opal Fields, South Australia, 1930
Alice Minnie Berrington, Coober Pedy Opal Fields, South Australia, 1930
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA
Hoppé spent nearly a year traversing and documenting “The Fifth Continent.” He photographed the architectural wonder of the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, the glamorous recreation antics of Sydney denizens at Bondi Beach, the stark landscape of the Outback, grizzled desert opal miners (including a sole woman), Aboriginal peoples and their tribal traditions, and luscious forests that were increasingly being exploited for lumber, much to Hoppé’s distress.
I was only too fully aware that no photograph could capture the spirit and grandeur of this stupendous tableau.
– E.O. Hoppé
Australian Aboriginal, Moree, New South Wales, Australia, 1930
Australian Aboriginal, Moree, New South Wales, Australia, 1930
Australian Lumberman, Tasmania, Australia, 1930
Australian Lumberman, Tasmania, Australia, 1930
Bathers, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, 1930
Bathers, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, 1930
Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, 1930
Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, 1930
Clocky Travis, Deaf Watchmaker and Lamplighter at Bridgetown, Western Australia, 1930
Clocky Travis, Deaf Watchmaker and Lamplighter at Bridgetown, Western Australia, 1930
Dance Sign, New South Wales, Australia, 1930
Dance Sign, New South Wales, Australia, 1930
Dorothea MacKellah, Poet, 1930
Dorothea MacKellah, Poet, 1930
