Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s Photographs Shaped Australia is a fascinating biography of commercial photographer Ernest Lund Mitchell, intertwined with a detailed examination of how his photographs, particularly of Western Australia and Queensland, were used to promote Australia to the Empire. The work is based on author Joanna Sassoon’s PhD thesis and journal articles. Joanna Sassoon has extensive experience and knowledge in managing archival photographic collections and is an internationally respected historian and archivist. She brings both a historian’s perspective and an archivist’s focus on context to her examination of E.L. Mitchell’s photographs. The work features extensive reproductions of the photographs under discussion, which allows the reader to appreciate the knowledge and analysis that Sassoon brings to bear on her analysis. Sassoon considers: the content of the photographs; their role in creating a sense of ‘social harmony, economic stability and Australia’s connections to the British Empire’ (p. viii); how they were circulated and made accessible; and finally how their ‘archival afterlives’ are influencing views of twentieth-century Australia (p. ix). Agents of Empire is divided into three parts:

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帝国特工：EL Mitchell 的照片如何塑造澳大利亚

帝国特工：EL Mitchell 的照片如何塑造澳大利亚是商业摄影师欧内斯特·隆德·米切尔 (Ernest Lund Mitchell) 的一部引人入胜的传记，其中详细介绍了他的照片，尤其是西澳大利亚和昆士兰的照片，是如何被用来向帝国宣传澳大利亚的。这项工作基于作者 Joanna Sassoon 的博士论文和期刊文章。乔安娜·沙逊 (Joanna Sassoon) 在管理档案摄影收藏方面拥有丰富的经验和知识，并且是国际知名的历史学家和档案保管员。她将历史学家的观点和档案管理员对背景的关注带到了她对 EL Mitchell 照片的检查中。该作品对讨论中的照片进行了大量复制，让读者能够欣赏沙逊为她的分析带来的知识和分析。沙逊认为：照片的内容；他们在营造“社会和谐、经济稳定和澳大利亚与大英帝国的联系”方面的作用（第 viii 页）；它们是如何传播和获取的；最后，他们的“档案来世”如何影响 20 世纪澳大利亚的观点（第 9 页）。帝国特工分为三部分：