Abstract
This chapter examines the photographs, as well as the broader photography of race relations that contextualized them, to offer insight into the operation of photography in the formation and reformation of the public sphere in Australia. The public sphere is defined as a space for the generation and communication of public opinion, and a realm for ‘marshalling public opinion as a political force’, for holding officials accountable and for assuring that ‘the actions of the state express the will of the citizenry’. The chapter underscores the value of photography in this process by considering its special role as a medium of visibility in the public sphere, and its place in facilitating transnational conceptions of the public. When the interlocutors of public opinion are fellow members of a political community as is case of photographs from the US civil rights movement informing public debate on Aboriginal rights in Australia it becomes difficult to define public spheres as 'coextensive with political membership'.
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