Harold Cazneaux
(New Zealand, Australia 1878–1953)
- Title
- Guillaux Aloft
- Year
- 1914
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph, sepia toned
- Dimensions
-
11.7 x 20.4 cm image; 19.5 x 31.4 cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. sheet, pencil "HCazneaux". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Photography Collection Benefactors' Program 2002
- Accession number
- 218.2002
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Maurice Guillaux was a French aviator who made Australia's first air mail delivery in July 1914, from Melbourne to Sydney in a Bleriot monoplane. The journey took 2 ½ days with actual flying time of 9 ¼ hours. Cazneaux has captured the excitement of the occasion as the plane flies over the heads of the assembled spectators.
- Bibliography (3)
-
Natasha Bullock (Australia) (Author), Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography, 2008.
Australia: Images of a Nation 1850-1950 1983, 1983.
Harrington's Photographic Journal 22 Jul 1914, 22 Jul 1914, 225.
- Exhibition history (1)
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Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 05 Jun 2008–10 Aug 2008.
