The photos in this gallery are those made by the colonial photographers in the late nineteenth centuries. These photos help to establish that a photographic landscape tradition of the arid and the semi-arid regions of northern South Australia existed in the late nineteen centuries.
This photographic tradition is prior to the paintings of Heysen and his photographic friends (ie. Joyner and Cazneau) in the 1920s, plus some made after the 1920s.
A history of the visual representations of the Flinders Ranges is here.
F.J. Elliot, Granite boulders,, Birksgate Ranges, 1891F. J. Elliot, Everard Ranges, 1891H.H. Tilbrook, Devils Creek, Flinders Ranges 1894Herbert Basedow, Strawbridge Springs, Tomkinson Ranges, SA, 1903Robert Mitchell, Mt Deception Station, 1897 F.A.Joyner, Landscape of the Far North, 1928-30Charles Mountford, Meat House, Arkaroola Station, 1944
F.J. Elliot, Yankunytjatjara people, Everard Ranges, 1891Herbert Basedow, sandstorm near Lake Killalpaninna, 1919 H. H.Tilbrook, Hookina Creek, Flinders Ranges, 1894Robert Mitchell salt bush, Flinders Ranges , 1897 Robert Mitchell, tree, Flinders Ranges, 1897 F.A. Joyner, Landscape, Flinders Ranges, 1928-30F.A Joyner, Guardians of the creek, 1928-30
The Long Road to the North 