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 (ANZSIC code: 75)
  • Pastoralist (ANZSIC code: 01)
  • Surgeon (ANZSIC code: 8512)
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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References [<ExternalResource: Docker, E (1972), 'Joseph Docker', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 4, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Cato, J. (1955), 'The Story of the Camera in Australia', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: (1868), Australian Journal 2, 09-12.>, <ExternalResource: (1884), Sydney Mail, 12-27.>, <ExternalResource: Docker, E.B., 'Reminiscences', Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney: manuscript.>]