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Details
- Date
- 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
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 218.2002
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Harold Cazneaux
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Jun 2008–10 Aug 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Natasha Bullock, Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography, Sydney, 2008.
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David Moore and Rodney Hall, Australia: Images of a Nation 1850-1950, Australia, 1983.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Harrington's Photographic Journal, Sydney, 22 Jul 1914, 225.
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