City Streets : Progressive Adelaide 75 years on

City Streets : Progressive Adelaide 75 years on
ISBN: 9781743054130
Publication Date: 3 April 2017

When South Australia was 100 years old, Gustav Hermann Baring celebrated with style. His mammoth publication

Progressive Adelaide - As It Stands To-day was both a catalogue of commerce and a labour of love.

In 1936, Hermann Baring captured the State and its capital in pictures. For all time. Inspired by

Progressive Adelaide, photographer Mick Bradley and writer Lance Campbell set out in Baring's footsteps. In images and words,

City Streets is progressive Adelaide today.

This is a unique book about a unique city. For all time.

About the Authors

Lance Campbell has long experience of Adelaide. Born on Unley Road, he is an arts writer and multiple award-winning sports writer. He wrote

By Popular Demand for the Adelaide Festival Centre's 25th anniversary, and Heart of the Arts for its 40th. He was arts editor of the

Adelaide Advertiser, has written satirical columns for

The Adelaide Review, and has contributed to several books, including

McLaren Vale: Trott's View. Lance also is arts and architecture editor of

SALife magazine. Taking

City Streets to the streets with Mick Bradley was one of the more enjoyable diversions in Lance's professional life, a world away from typewriters and computers.

Mick Bradley's work bridges the gap between documentary and fine art photography. Mick was born in London and came to Australia as a boy. His images tell stories from our lives from the 1970s on. He honed his craft as a fine art printer, darkroom operator and photographer. Mick created his own niche in the history of South Australian photography, while his work appears in books, exhibitions and collections throughout this country, in North America and in the United Kingdom. Mick Bradley died aft...