xiii 218 pages Endnotes, Notes and Further Reading, Glossary Index. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage. The corners are lightly rubbed and the front cover's outer edges are lightly both slightly creased The book originally had a plastic cover and both the title page and the last page have remnant sticky tape shadows also at the outer edges. Else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. Includes essays by Helen Ennis and Chris Long and assistance from Isobel Crombie and Kate Davidson. ""Shades of Light traces the history of photography as an art in Australia from 1939 to the present. A selection of over 150 photographs show the range of suject matter and techniques favoured throughout the decades, from tiny daguerreotypes, Holtermann's panorama of Sydney in 1875, album photographs and early colour works, to the dynamic works of the 1980s. Gael Newton records the reaction in this country to the developments in photography around the world from its debut in Paris and London in 1839, and surveys the work of the finest Australian photographers." (back cover)