Person
Cazneaux, Harold Pierce (1878 - 1953)
FRPS
- Born
- 30 March 1878
Wellington, New Zealand - Died
- 19 June 1953
Roseville, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Photographer
Summary
Harold Cazneaux worked as a portrait and landscape photographer. In 1916, Cazneaux founded the amateur Sydney Camera Circle to break with typical British photographic conventions in favour of using Australian sunshine effects. He produced a series of portraits of well-known artists, musicians, and actors and many books.
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His photograph of a giant Red River Gum in the Flinders Ranges in 1937 was exhibited in the London Salon of Photography, titles A Giant of the Arid North. A later version was exhibited in 1941, entitled The Spirit of Endurance. Known as the Cazneaux Tree, it is still a popular tourist destination in the Wilpena region of the Flinders Ranges.
Chronology
- 1904 - 1918
- Career position - Works at Freeman & Co. Ltd photographic studio, Sydney, New South Wales
- 1914
- Career event - Winner of Kodak 'Happy Moment' contest
- 1937
- Award - Honorary Fellow, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (FRPS)
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M., Eucalypts: a Celebration (Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2010), 344 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Lynch, Lesley G., 'Cazneaux, Harold Pierce (1878-1953), Photographer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979). http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cazneaux-harold-pierce-5542. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3496239. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/74916515. Details
- 'Cazneaux, Harold (18780330-19530619)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-589097. Details
See also
- Mitchell, Elyne, Australian treescapes : a photographic study (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1950), 56 pp. Details
- Sheppard, H. et al., Eucalypts, Australian Government, 2007, http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/eucalypts. Details
Christine Moje
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