Marsh, Anne, The darkroom : photography and the theatre of desire, Macmillan, Melbourne 2003 Abstract Anne Marsh’s treatise on the art of photography traces its theoretical underpinning from the early debates between the rationalists and the fantasists, through psychoanalytical interpretations, to the theatre of desire. She investigates the role of photography in ghostly performances’, the masking of desire’ and high camp aesthetics’ – through to performance art’ and the role of the photographer as a gender terrorist’ – as in the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. The study concludes with notable examples of postmodern photography as they have occurred in the Australian context. This ground-breaking work by a leading Monash…