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Photography

Subject

Ambleside

Cazneaux, Harold

Life After Wartime

Australasian Photo-review

Rowe Street: an Impression

Walkabout: Australia and the South Seas

Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of NSW August 1886

Ambleside

Camera Obscura, Manly 1857

Amateur Photographic Society of New South Wales (1)

Amateur Photographic Society of New South Wales (2)

American and Australasian Photographic Company

Australian Centre for Photography

Charles Kerry and Company

Freeman Studio

Hanimex Pty Ltd

Alexakis, Effy

Baglin, Douglass

Barnett, Walter

Bischoff, Joseph

Blackwood, William

Bostock, Cecil

Broadhurst, William Henry

Burke, Walter

Cato, Jack

Cazneau, Pierce Mott

Cazneaux, Harold

Cotton, Olive Edith

Dalton, Edwin

Degotardi Jnr, John

Degotardi, John

Dupain, Max

Ellis, Rennie

Evans, Dan

Fletcher, Judith

Foster, Ethel

Gittoes, George

Hall, Fiona

Henson, Bill

Holtermann, Otto

Hunt, Robert Fellowes

Hurley, Frank

Joubert, Didier

Lai, Joy

Merlin, Henry Beaufoy

Mitchell, Albert George

Moffatt, Tracey

Moore, David

Moore, May

Mulligan, John

Murray, Alec

Perry, David

Phillips, Harry

Praeger, Laura

Rae, John

Riley, Michael

Sly, Ethel

Stacey, Wesley

Taizumi, Yasunao

Vaniman, Melvin

Vic Johnston

Wingate, Thomas

Katoomba St & Clouds, Katoomba c1908-15

Advertisement for Hoover 1937

Cover of the photographic album 'Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of NSW' August 1886

Eleventh panel of Panorama of Sydney Harbour from the north shore 1875

General Post Office, Sydney c1858-1859

H Walter Barnett c1894

Hyde Park Barracks c1872

In George Street, Sydney c 1910

Isabel and Harry Phillips and their daughter Isabel May 1918

Kate Leigh with a news photographer's camera, September 1951

Little boy sitting on Santa's lap at Roselands December 1969

Melvin Vaniman, portrait of the engineer about to board the transatlantic dirigible Akron 2 July 1912

Photographers and journalists outside the Coroner's Court, The Rocks c1930

Portrait of Harold Cazneaux

Rowe Street: An Impression 1909

Sam Hood outside 124 Pitt Street, Dalny Studios, c1950

Shirley Beiger arrives at the Coroner's Court for the inquest into the death of Arthur Griffith, 7 September 1954

Taking Edinburgh by Storm - or the Prince cannonaded by Photographers 1867

Women with cameras at Powers' picnic, Middle Harbour, 10 December 1902

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Photography

Ambleside

Ambleside and its garden were a refuge and an inspiration to photographer Harold Cazneaux, who lived there from 1915 until his death in 1953.

Cazneaux, Harold

Born in New Zealand and raised in Adelaide, Harold Cazneaux became one of Sydney's pre-eminent photographers, documenting its changing face and different moods.

Life After Wartime

Life After Wartime brings previously 'lost' images from the Justice and Police Museum, Sydney, into the public domain. Using uncatalogued crime scene photographs taken from 1945 to 1960, Life After Wartime captures a startling record of life, death and folly, reflecting a period of great turmoil in Sydney.

Australasian Photo-review

Journal for photographers published by Kodak (Australasia) Ltd.

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Rowe Street: an Impression

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Photograph taken by Harold Cazneaux to capture a moment in a city street.

Walkabout: Australia and the South Seas

Monthly travel and geographic magazine published between 1934-1974 by the Australian National Travel Association (ANTA).

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Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of NSW August 1886

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Album of photographs by members of the Amateur Photographic Society of New South Wales and presented by the society to the Governor, Lord Carrington, at the opening of an exhibition or 'conversazione' of their work at the Sydney Town Hall on 5 August 1886.

Ambleside

Harold Cazneaux's house and garden in Roseville

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Camera Obscura, Manly 1857

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Turretted tower built by Henry Gilbert Smith which housed a camera obscura. The land on which it stood was eventually sold to WB Dalley who built Marinella on the site.

Amateur Photographic Society of New South Wales (1)

Society of amateur photographers formed in 1872, the first of three such organisations in Sydney.

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Amateur Photographic Society of New South Wales (2)

Society of amateur photographers founded in 1884, the second of three such organisations.

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American and Australasian Photographic Company

A company under which Beaufoy Merlin operated during his time as a travelling photographer, first in Melbourne, then in New South Wales before establishing a portrait studio in Sydney. It was a grandiose name with no apparent connection to America. Joined by his assistant, a young Charles Bayliss, along with Augustus Clinton, the company became known for producing what is now called the Holtermann collection of photographs in the Mitchell Library.

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Australian Centre for Photography

Not-for-profit organisation which is the longest running contemporary art space in Australia providing exhibition space, training and publications about photography.

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Charles Kerry and Company

Photographic studio opened by Charles Kerry in 1892 which produced over 2900 glass plates and many early postcards of country life and significant early events from the 1900s until its closure in 1917.

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Freeman Studio

Photographic studio founded in 1848.

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Hanimex Pty Ltd

Company which produces photographic equipment and supplies.

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Alexakis, Effy

Photographer and teacher.

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Baglin, Douglass

Photographer who documented many of Sydney's heritage buildings.

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Barnett, Walter

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Leading portrait photographer who worked with Marius Sestier to make and show the first motion pictures in Australia.

Bischoff, Joseph

Nineteenth century photographer who captured many images of Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

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Blackwood, William

Photographer.

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Bostock, Cecil

Prominent Sydney photographer.

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Broadhurst, William Henry

Photographer who published charming views of the North Shore between 1900 and 1927, often hand coloured by his daughters.

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Burke, Walter

Photographer who formed an advertising agency with Harry J Weston in 1908.

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Cato, Jack

Photographer and historian of Australian photography.

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Cazneau, Pierce Mott

Photographer.

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Cazneaux, Harold

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Photographer whose work recorded many aspects of Sydney over many decades.

Cotton, Olive Edith

Modernist photographer whose work is represented in all major Australian collections.

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Dalton, Edwin

Painter and photographer who was renowned for his portraiture.

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Degotardi Jnr, John

Photographer who worked for the NSW Department of Public Works and son of pioneering Australian photographer and printer John Degotardi. Degotardi Jnr produced, among other things, the photographic documentation of the cleansing operations and slum clearances in inner Sydney in 1900 that were undertaken after the outbreak of plague.

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Degotardi, John

Printer and photographer who was ahead of his time in associating photography and printing and who captured some of Sydney's earliest images.

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Dupain, Max

Significant Sydney based modernist photographer.

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Ellis, Rennie

Social documentary photographer.

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Evans, Dan

Souvenir photographer who worked mainly at Echo Point from the 1930s to the 1950s capturing visitors posing with his Felix mannequin.

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Fletcher, Judith

Photographer who established herself as one of the first women studio portrait photographers in 1909. She became well known for her portraits of celebrities, Sydney socialites and artists.

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Foster, Ethel

Josephine Ethel Foster, better known as Ethel Foster or Mrs AG Foster, was a historian and photographer, who was one of the first members of the Royal Australian Historical Society. She and her husband, fellow historian Arthur George Foster, documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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Gittoes, George

Artist who works in a variety of media to portray the effects on the environment of war, industry and disasters around the world.

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Hall, Fiona

Photographer and sculptor.

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Henson, Bill

Art photographer whose work focuses on ambiguity and transition though images of children and adolescents.

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Holtermann, Otto

Gold miner, businessman, politician and photography enthusiast who made a fortune on the goldfields and sponsored a famous series of photographs of Sydney.

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Hunt, Robert Fellowes

Chemist who was appointed at the newly established Sydney branch of the Royal Mint in 1854 to direct melting and refining operations.

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Hurley, Frank

Photographer and adventurer who became a trailblazing documentary filmmaker.

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Joubert, Didier

Businessman and local politician who was first mayor of Hunters Hill, and one of Sydney's early photographers, using the daguerreotype process.

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Lai, Joy

Artist and photographer.

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Merlin, Henry Beaufoy

Principally remembered as the photographer responsible for the Holtermann collection of photographs in the Mitchell Library, Merlin is the first recorded presenter of a puppet theatre in Australia.

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Mitchell, Albert George

Photographer who was the first headmaster of Northbridge Public School and was recognised as an outstanding educator and administrator. The Mitchell Collection at Willoughby Library holds photographs of early Northbridge taken by Mitchell and is an invaluable record of the development of the suburb.

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Moffatt, Tracey

Aboriginal artist working in film, photography and video.

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Moore, David

Photographer, born 1927, died 2003.

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Moore, May

New Zealand born painter and photographer who opened a studio in Sydney with her sister Mina in 1911. She retired in 1928.

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Mulligan, John

Photographer who documented life in Sydney particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Murray, Alec

Sydney photographer, a member of the so-called 'Merioola Group' of artists who, from the early 1940s to the early 1950s, lived and worked in Merioola, a boarding house in Woollahra converted from a Victorian-era mansion.

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Perry, David

Photographer and filmmaker.

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Phillips, Harry

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Professional photographer whose obsession with the Blue Mountains resulted in postcards and books and who did much to make the area famous between 1900 and 1930.

Praeger, Laura

Photographer who was working in Sydney between 1890 and 1894 predominantly as a portraitist to Sydney's elite. Examples of her landscape, architectural and group photographs also survive including her earliest known works which feature exterior and interior views of the elaborate mansion Clarens and its gardens in Potts Point.

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Rae, John

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Scottish-born public servant, writer, photographer and painter who was the first full-time town clerk of the City of Sydney, and later a railway commissioner.

Riley, Michael

Indigenous photographer and film maker.

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Sly, Ethel

Assistant to photographer Harold Cazneaux 1920-1934

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Stacey, Wesley

Photographer.

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Taizumi, Yasunao

Cinematographer who joined the Japanese Polar expedition in Sydney in November 1911 before the second attempt was made to reach the Antarctic.

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Vaniman, Melvin

American photographer who travelled in Australia and New Zealand and is known for his panoramic images of Sydney.

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Vic Johnston

Victor Johnston was a writer and press photographer in Sydney from the 1930s through till the 1960s. He worked for the Sun, for People and for PIX. Often mistakenly credited as Vic Johnson.

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Wingate, Thomas

Soldier and photographer.

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Katoomba St & Clouds, Katoomba c1908-15

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Advertisement for Hoover 1937

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By

Contributed By

National Gallery of Australia

[Accession No: NGA 82.1152]

Cover of the photographic album 'Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of NSW' August 1886

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By

Amateur Photographic Society of New South Wales

Contributed By

[Cover]

(from the album 'Works by Members of the Amateur Photographic Society of N.S.W presented by the Society to His Excellency Lord Carrington August 1886')

Eleventh panel of Panorama of Sydney Harbour from the north shore 1875

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By

Charles Bayliss

Contributed By

National Gallery of Australia

[Accession No: NGA 82.1159.1.11]

(Purchased 1982)

General Post Office, Sydney c1858-1859

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

H Walter Barnett c1894

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an23001101]

Hyde Park Barracks c1872

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

([City of Sydney : stereoviews taken from the spire of St James' Church, ca. 1872 / [attributed to Alexander Brodie] (Mitchell Library)

In George Street, Sydney c 1910

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By

John Henry Harvey

Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

Isabel and Harry Phillips and their daughter Isabel May 1918

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Contributed By

Blue Mountains City Library

[Local Studies Collection PF349]

Kate Leigh with a news photographer's camera, September 1951

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By

Victor Johnston

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[ON 388/Box 069/Item 138]

(Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW)

Little boy sitting on Santa's lap at Roselands December 1969

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Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[A1200, L85978]

Melvin Vaniman, portrait of the engineer about to board the transatlantic dirigible Akron 2 July 1912

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Contributed By

Gallica - Bibliothèque nationale de France

[ark:/12148/btv1b6920482n]

(BibliothÃ¨que nationale de France, dÃ©partement Estampes et photographie, EST EI-13 (175))

Photographers and journalists outside the Coroner's Court, The Rocks c1930

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[PXE 789 (v.14), f30]

Portrait of Harold Cazneaux

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By

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-an12148506]

Rowe Street: An Impression 1909

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By

Harold Cazneaux

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[Australasian photo-review, Vol 17, No 9 22 September 1910, p503 via Trove]

Sam Hood outside 124 Pitt Street, Dalny Studios, c1950

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a3236053 / PXA 584/52]

(Mitchell Library)

Shirley Beiger arrives at the Coroner's Court for the inquest into the death of Arthur Griffith, 7 September 1954

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[Australian Photographic Agency - 42858]

(Mitchell Library)

Taking Edinburgh by Storm - or the Prince cannonaded by Photographers 1867

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

(Sydney Punch, October 5, 1867, p 155)

Women with cameras at Powers' picnic, Middle Harbour, 10 December 1902

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Contributed By

National Library of Australia

[nla.pic-vn3065518]

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