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Frank Hurley (1885-1962) Captain James Francis (Frank) Hurley [1919] half plate glass negative 6½ x 4¾in (16.5 x 12.2cm.) with seven whole and half plate glass negatives and copy negatives, 6½ x 8½in (16.5 x 21.6cm.) and smaller, all World War I subjects; together with approximately 250 black and white prints (vintage and posthumous reproductions) of Hurley's war photographs and Australian work, including studies of the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, with a folio of twenty-two studies of the Australian sheep industry, the prints 11½ x 14¼in. (29.2 x 36.2cm.) and smaller.Provenance:
Frank Hurley (1885-1962), and thence by descent to the present owner. A large collection of prints from Hurley's studio and his heirs, the majority from Camera Studies of Australia made in the years following his demobilisation after World War II until his death in 1962. A small group of glass negatives and copy negatives include his self portrait, taken at the time of his investiture with the Polar medal and bar, 1919, reproduced in D.P. Millar, From Snowdrift to Shellfire, Sydney, 1984, frontispiece. Hurley's Australia, Myth, Dream,
1919, reproduced in D.P. Millar, From Snowdrift to Shellfire, Sydney, 1984, frontispiece. For a recent survey of Hurley's Australian work, see J. Thompson, Hurley's Australia, Myth, Dream, Reality, Canberra, 1999.
Frank Hurley (1885-1962), and thence by descent to the present owner. A large collection of prints from Hurley's studio and his heirs, the majority from Camera Studies of Australia made in the years following his demobilisation after World War II until his death in 1962. A small group of glass negatives and copy negatives include his self portrait, taken at the time of his investiture with the Polar medal and bar, 1919, reproduced in D.P. Millar, From Snowdrift to Shellfire, Sydney, 1984, frontispiece. Hurley's Australia, Myth, Dream,
1919, reproduced in D.P. Millar, From Snowdrift to Shellfire, Sydney, 1984, frontispiece. For a recent survey of Hurley's Australian work, see J. Thompson, Hurley's Australia, Myth, Dream, Reality, Canberra, 1999.
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