Spotting the fake: C. E. W. Bean, Frank Hurley and the making of the 1923photographic record of the war

Abstract

This paper examines the uses made by the Australian War Museum (later the Australian War Memorial) of Frank Hurley's photographs of the Great War, taken in 1917. It is a case study in what Elizabeth Edwards calls the 'social life' of photographs. The books and exhibitions in which Hurley's images appeared between 1918 and 1923 were organized by different people and institutions with different values and objectives. The format and meaning of a photograph were not fixed once and for all, but were fluid and context-dependent.

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