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Olive Cotton
Olive Cotton (11 July 191127 September 2003) was a pioneering Australian modernist photographer of the 1930s and 1940s working in Sydney. Cotton became a national "name" with a retrospective and touring exhibition 50 years later in 1985. A book of her life and work, published by the National Library of Australia, came out in 1995. Cotton captured her childhood friend Max Dupain from the sidelines at photoshoots, e.g. "Fashion shot, Cronulla Sandhills, circa 1937" and made several portraits of him.''Olive Cotton: Photographer'', Helen Ennis, National Library of Australia, 1995. Dupain was Cotton's first husband. Early life Olive Edith Cotton was born on 11 July 1911,Design and Art Australia Online Retrieved 24 April 2014 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowra, New South Wales
Cowra () is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre and the council seat for the Cowra Shire, with a population of 8,254. Cowra is located approximately above sea level, on the banks of the Lachlan River, in the Lachlan Valley. By road it is approximately west of the state capital, Sydney, and north of the nation's capital, Canberra. The town is situated at the intersection of three state highways: the Mid-Western Highway, Olympic Highway and the Lachlan Valley Way. Cowra is included in the rainfall recorder and weather forecast region for the Central West Slopes and Plains division of the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts. History Prisoner of War camp During World War II, Cowra was the site of a prisoner of war (POW) camp. Most of the detainees were captured Japanese and Italian military personnel. However, in July 1942, Indonesian political prisoners from the Dutch Tanahmerah prison on the Digul river, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burwood, New South Wales
Burwood is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the Local government in Australia, local government area of Municipality of Burwood. Burwood Heights, New South Wales, Burwood Heights is a separate suburb to the south. The Appian Way, Burwood, Appian Way is a street in Burwood, known for its architecturally designed Federation architecture, Federation-style homes. History Archaeological evidence indicates people were living in the Sydney area for at least 11,000 years. This long association had led to a harmonious relationship between the Indigenous peoples, indigenous inhabitants and their environment, which was interrupted by the arrival of the British in 1788. The European desire to cultivate the land aided and abetted by a smallpox epidemic that forced the local people, the Wangal people, Wangal clan, away from their source of food and their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowra
Cowra () is a town in the Central West, New South Wales, Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre and the council seat for the Cowra Shire, with a population of 8,254. Cowra is located approximately above sea level, on the banks of the Lachlan River, in the Lachlan Valley. By road it is approximately west of the state capital, Sydney, and north of the nation's capital, Canberra. The town is situated at the intersection of three state highways: the Mid-Western Highway, Olympic Highway and the Lachlan Valley Way. Cowra is included in the rainfall recorder and weather forecast region for the Central West Slopes and Plains division of the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts. History Prisoner of War camp During World War II, Cowra was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp, prisoner of war (POW) camp. Most of the detainees were captured Japanese and Italian military personnel. However, in July 1942, Indonesian political prisoners from the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Paton Gallery
The George Paton Gallery is the first institutionally supported experimental art space in Australia. Established in 1975 as the Ewing and George Paton Gallery, it is run by the University of Melbourne Student Union, on the University of Melbourne Parkville Campus. In 2022, the gallery relocated from its longstanding space at Union House to the purpose-built Arts and Cultural Building. History The George Paton Gallery was the central hub for experimental art in Australia in the 1970s and early 1980s. As well as presenting diverse and challenging exhibitions, it fostered a strong community of creative discourse through film screenings, poetry readings, performance events and hosting meetings by marginalised groups of artists and activists. Early influential exhibitions that cement the radical nature of the gallery's first decade include Janine Burke's ''Australian women artists: One hundred years, 1840–1940'' presented in 1975, and "The Letter Show", presented in 1974, curated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gael Newton
Gael Lauraine Newton AM (1949– ) is an Australian art historian and curator specialising in surveys and studies of photography across the Asia-Pacific region. Newton was formerly curator of photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Senior Curator of Australian and International Photography at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra. Education After her secondary education at Manly Girls High, Newton took studies as one of the first intake into the Power Department of Fine Art at the University of Sydney in 1969-1972 then, pursuing an interest in art practice, enrolled at the Elam Art School in Auckland where photography was a compulsory subject in first year, and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in photography in 1974. She started a Masters degree in art history which was interrupted by a move back to Australia in 1974 and a series of temporary positions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales which introduced the desirability of a caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backlighting (lighting Design)
In lighting design, backlighting is the process of illuminating the subject from the back. In other words, the lighting instrument and the viewer face each other, with the subject in between. This creates a glowing effect on the edges of the subject, while other areas are darker. The backlight can be a natural or artificial source of light. When artificial, the back light is usually placed directly behind the subject in a 4-point lighting setup. A back light, which lights foreground elements from the rear, is not to be confused with a background light, which lights background elements (such as scenery). In the context of lighting design, the back light is sometimes called hair or shoulder light, because when lighting an actor or an actress, backlighting makes the edges the subject's hair glow if the hair is fuzzy. This can create an angelic halo type effect around the head. Filmmakers sometimes use this to show that the actor is ''good'' or '' pure''. Television produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tea Cup Ballet
''Tea cup ballet'' is a 1935 photograph by Australian modernist photographer Olive Cotton. It is arguably Cotton's best known work. The photograph depicts six tea cups and saucers lit so to form shadows that suggest the form of ballet dancers. The photograph was exhibited in the London Salon of Photography in 1935, the first work of Cotton's to be shown outside Australia. The work was featured on an Australia Post Australia Post, formally the Australian Postal Corporation and also known as AusPost, is an Australian Government-State-owned enterprise, owned corporation that provides postal services throughout Australia. Australia Post's head office is loca ... stamp in 1991 commemorating 150 years of photography. Materials used Gelatin silver photograph Dimensions 37.3 x 29.6 cm image; 38.0 x 30.2 cm sheet References External links''Tea cup ballet''- Art Gallery of New South Wales {{photography-stub Black-and-white photographs 1935 works 1935 in art Modern art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Bank
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), also known as Commonwealth Bank or simply CommBank, is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It provides a variety of financial services, including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment, and broking services. The Commonwealth Bank is the largest Australian listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange as of July 2024, with brands including Bankwest, Colonial First State Investments, ASB Bank (New Zealand), Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) and Commonwealth Insurance (CommInsure). Its former constituent parts were the Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia, the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia, and the Commonwealth Development Bank. Founded in 1911 by the Australian Government and fully privatised in 1996, the Commonwealth Bank is one of the big four Australian banks, with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Ure Smith
Sydney George Ure Smith OBE (9 January 188711 October 1949) was an Australian arts publisher, artist and promoter who "did more than any other Australian to publicize Australian art at home and overseas". Unlike most of his contemporaries, he seldom submitted his own art work for publication. He published some of his own work in limited edition books such as ''Old Sydney'' (1911) and ''Old Colonial By-Ways'' (1928), prompted by his passion for preserving historic buildings. Early life He was born in London in 1887 and arrived in Australia with his parents later that same year. His father John (d. 1919) was manager of the Menzies Hotel, Melbourne and later of the Hotel Australia, Sydney for over 20 years. His parents adopted the form "Ure Smith": his mother (d. 1931) was born Catherine Ure, but formally their surname remained Smith. He was educated at Queen's College, Melbourne and then at Sydney Grammar School. He studied pencil and ink drawing at the Julian Ashton Art School ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Parer
Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire at Peleliu, Palau. He was cinematographer for Australia's first Oscar-winning film, '' Kokoda Front Line!'', an edition of the weekly newsreel, '' Cinesound Review'', which was produced by Ken G. Hall. Early life Damien Parer was born at Malvern in Melbourne, the seventh child of John Arthur Parer, a Spanish-Catalan-born hotel manager on King Island and his wife Teresa, the daughter of JP Carolin a Tasmanian and Mary Corcoran from Tipperary, Ireland. In 1923, he and his brother Adrian were sent as boarders to St Stanislaus' College in Bathurst and St Kevin's College, Melbourne. He joined the school's camera club, and decided that he wanted to be a photographer, rather than a priest. However, finding a job as a photographer in depression-era Australia proved difficult, so he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Cazneaux
Harold Pierce Cazneaux (30 March 1878 – 19 June 1953), commonly referred to as H. P. Cazneaux, was an Australian photographer; a pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on Australian photographic history. In 1916, he was a founding member of the pictorialism, pictorialist Sydney Camera Circle. As a regular participator in national and international exhibitions, Cazneaux was unfaltering in his desire to contribute to the discussion about the photography of his times. His career between the Wars established him as "the country's leading pictorial photographer". History Cazneaux was born in Wellington, New Zealand, a son of Emily Florence "Emma" Cazneau, née Bentley (14 May 1855 – 24 March 1892) and Pierce Mott Cazneau (23 November 1849 – 20 April 1928), sixth son of Liverpool artist Edward Lancelot Cazneau. They married on 23 December 1876 and emigrated to Melbourne in 1886. Around 1890 they moved to Adelaide, where Pierce Mott Cazneau was employed by Hammer & Co. in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Camera Circle
The Sydney Camera Circle was a Pictorialist photographic society formed in 1916 in Sydney, Australia. It was most active before World War II, and was influential on Australian photography for fifty years. History The Sydney Camera Circle was formed on 28 November 1916 at the Bostock-Little Studio, Phillip Street, Sydney. The founders were Cecil Bostock, Harold Cazneaux, Malcolm McKinnon, James Paton, James S. Stening and William Stewart White. All six signed a manifesto, pledging to advance and promote a Pictorialist photography devoted to Australian sunlight and shadow as opposed to the greys and ‘dismal’ shadows of European styles. In this ambition they shared the ideals of the Heidelberg School of Australian painters. The group was dominated by amateurs interested in photography as an art form who shared constructive criticism and support at their meetings, exhibiting their work under the name of The Sydney Camera Circle. The group continued as an entity until 1978 when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
