{"product_id":"shutter-city-fragments-of-a-forgotten-melbourne","title":"Shutter City Fragments of a Forgotten Melbourne","description":"Suppose that you could travel back in time to a Melbourne city street from 150 years ago or even longer. What might meet your eye that has eluded history's gaze?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Shutter City presents city street views spanning the hurly-burly decades of the 1850s to 1870s, between the gold rushes and Marvellous Melbourne. Robyn Annear peers into every shadowy corner to reveal postcard streetscapes as miraculous time-capsules, packed with hidden-in-plain-sight historical detail. Her discoveries - she calls them 'sparks' - illuminate and decode each of Shutter City's street views.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Among the sightings: barbers' poles, drinking fountains, the three gilded balls of a pawnbroker's sign, gleaming white cups at a coffee stall, street-vendors' carts, neighbourhood dogs (and a cat), assorted ghosts, and ladders lots of ladders.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Let Shutter City be your time-machine and Robyn Annear your guide: her lively and insightful commentary weaves the street views and their 'sparks' into a vivid narrative of a near-forgotten Melbourne and the photographers who captured it.","brand":"Melbourne University Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643036614905,"sku":"9780522881776","price":49.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/4535\/6025\/files\/3952303482374.jpg?v=1774847059","url":"https:\/\/www.atticusbooksandart.com.au\/products\/shutter-city-fragments-of-a-forgotten-melbourne","provider":"Atticus Bookshop Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}