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Max Dupain OBE (1911–1992) was a pioneering modernist photographer.
99 portraits in the collection
Olive Cotton (1911-2003) was one of Australia's pioneering modernist photographers.
2 portraits in the collection
Robert Emerson Curtis (1898-1996) was an illustrator and painter who arrived in Sydney from England in 1924.
2 portraits in the collection
Sydney Ancher (1904-1980), architect, graduated from Sydney Tech College in 1930.
1 portrait in the collection
Jessie Sinden was a barmaid at the Brooklyn Hotel on George Street in Sydney when she was 'discovered' by Baron George Hoyningen-Huene, a high-profile American fashion photographer and Hollywood figure.
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Helen Blaxland DBE (1907–1989), conservationist and fundraiser, studied at the Julian Ashton School of Art in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Antonia Blaxland (1929-1989), photographer, was the great-great granddaughter of Gregory Blaxland, leader of the successful Blue Mountains expedition in 1813.
1 portrait in the collection
Kerry Dundas, son of artist Douglas Dundas, gained an interest in photography as a student at Sydney Grammar school.
8 portraits in the collection
Damien Parer (1912-1944), photographer and filmmaker, became friends with Max Dupain in the thirties, often taking photographs with him on excursions to the beach and bush.
2 portraits in the collection
Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968) was a high-profile American fashion photographer and Hollywood figure.
1 portrait in the collection
Adam Knott (b. 1966) began taking photographs for local newspapers as a schoolboy in St George, South Sydney.
7 portraits in the collection
Nancy Menetrey (née Wilkinson) was born in Sydney in 1924. After serving with the Australian Women's Land Army, formed during the Second World War to address labour shortages in the agricultural sector, she travelled overseas in the early 1950s, living and working in London for a number of years.
1 portrait in the collection