Harold Cazneaux
(New Zealand, Australia 1878–1953)
- Title
- Sydney Bridge
- Other titles:
- Bridge pattern
Arch of steel - Year
- circa 1934
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
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29.7 x 21.5cm image/sheet; 35.9 x 27.4cm card
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. card, pencil "H Cazneaux" and u.c. verso card, pencil ".../ H Cazneaux". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the Cazneaux family 1975
- Accession number
- 121.1975
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
It was in Sydney that New Zealand-born, Adelaide-trained Cazneaux ultimately made the photographs on which his high historical reputation is justifiably based. His personal vision helped to shape a nation's understanding of itself in the first half of the twentieth century. Emerging from the poetics of the pictorialist tradition, Cazneaux nonetheless admired, and imitated, the racier, more hard-edged themes of modernist photography. His interest in contemporary European photography, especially that of the German Weimar Republic, confirmed his subject matter as urban, industrial and documentary. The building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge provided him with a project perfectly formed for his artistic needs. Here, in but one of many superlative examples, Cazneaux contrasts the uncompromisingly mechanistic structure with a subtle tracery of light and shadow.
Art Gallery Handbook, 1999.
- Bibliography (13)
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Natasha Bullock (Australia) (Author), Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography, 2008.
'Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography' by Natasha Bullock, pg.28-31, Look Jun 2008, Jun 2008, 28.
Caroline Mackaness (Australia) (Author), Bridging Sydney, Sydney, 2006, 52 (illus.).
Gael Newton (Australia) (Author), Project 7: Harold Cazneaux 1878 - 1953, Sydney, 1975. cat.no. 26
Gael Newton (Australia), Australian Pictorial Photography, Melbourne, 1979, 17. cat.no. 26
Philip Geeves (Australia) (Author), Gael Newton (Australia) (Author), Philip Geeves presents Cazneaux's Sydney 1904-1934, Sydney, 1980, 142, 143 (illus.).
Gael Newton (Australia) (Author), Silver and Grey - Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900-1950, 1980. plate no. 55
Anne-Marie Willis (Australia) (Author), Picturing Australia - A History of Photography, Sydney, 1988, 151. fig.no. 90
Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 38 (illus.).
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 202 (illus.).
'Sydney-side-on' by Judith White, pg.28-29, Look Apr 2000, Apr 2000, 29 (illus.).
Michael Wardell (Australia) (Author), My city of Sydney, Domain, 2000, back cover (illus.). no pagination or catalogue numbers
Natasha Bullock (Australia) (Curator), Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Domain, 2002. no pagination or catalogue numbers
- Exhibition history (9)
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Project 7 - Harold Cazneaux: 1878 - 1953 (1975), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 30 Aug 1975–28 Sep 1975.
Australian Pictorial Photography, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 12 Jun 1979–08 Jul 1979.
Australian Pictorial Photography, The Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, 08 Aug 1979–31 Aug 1979.
Australian Pictorial Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia, 01 Dec 1979–30 Jan 1980.
Souvenirs of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 14 Mar 1992–10 May 1992.
My city of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 02 Sep 2000–22 Oct 2000.
Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 30 Sep 2002–17 Nov 2002.
Bridging Sydney, Museum of Sydney, 16 Dec 2006–29 Apr 2007.
Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 05 Jun 2008–10 Aug 2008.
