{"product_id":"9780522881776","title":"Shutter City : Fragments of a Forgotten Melbourne","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuppose 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? 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. 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melbourne University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48993228783851,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":60.41,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780522881776-1.jpg?v=1783382330","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9780522881776","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}