Joseph Docker b. 1802

  • Artist ,
  • 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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Name
Joseph Docker
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Politician
  • Pastoralist
  • Surgeon
Birth date
1802
Death date
9 December 1884
Death place
Sydney, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1840 - c.1884
Arrival
  • c.1834
Residence
  • 1851 - 1884 Sydney, NSW
  • c.1834 - c.1850 Hunter Valley, NSW
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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