Harold Cazneaux
(New Zealand, Australia 1878–1953)
- Title
- Sydney Bridge
- Other titles:
- Bridge pattern, Arch of steel
- Year
- circa 1934
- Media
- Photograph
- Medium
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 29.7 x 21.5cm image/sheet; 35.9 x 27.4cm card
:
0 - Whole; 22 x 16"; mount - Signature & date
- Signed l.r. card, pencil "H Cazneaux" and u.c. verso card, ink ".../ 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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Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography (2008), Natasha Bullock (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874).
Look (Jun 2008), Jill Sykes (Australia) (Editor), 10pm [print management] (Australia), Newtown, New South Wales, Australia.
Bridging Sydney (2006), Caroline Mackaness (Australia) (Author), Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1980), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Project 7: Harold Cazneaux 1878 - 1953 (1975), Gael Newton (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Australian Pictorial Photography (1979), Gael Newton (Australia), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Philip Geeves presents Cazneaux's Sydney 1904-1934 (1980), Philip Geeves (Australia) (Author), Gael Newton (Australia) (Author), The David Ell Press Pty Ltd (Australia), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Silver and Grey - Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900-1950 (1980), Gael Newton (Australia) (Author), Angus & Robertson Ltd (Australia).
Picturing Australia - A History of Photography (1988), Anne-Marie Willis (Australia) (Author), Angus & Robertson Ltd (Australia), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections (1994), Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook (1999), Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Look (Apr 2000), Judith White (Australia) (Editor), Fiona Hardie (Australia), South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
My city of Sydney (2000), Michael Wardell (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain (2002), Natasha Bullock (Australia) (Curator), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Exhibition history (9)
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Australian Pictorial Photography, (01 Dec 1979–30 Jan 1980), at Art Gallery of South Australia (Australia, estab. 1881), North Terrace Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 5000.
My city of Sydney, (02 Sep 2000–22 Oct 2000), at Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Art Gallery Rd Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000.
Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography, (05 Jun 2008–10 Aug 2008), at Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Art Gallery Rd Domain Sydney New South Wales Australia 2000.
Australian Pictorial Photography, (08 Aug 1979–31 Aug 1979), at The Victorian College of the Arts Gallery (Australia), 234 St. Kilda Road South Bank, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3006.
Australian Pictorial Photography, (12 Jun 1979–08 Jul 1979), at S.H. Ervin Gallery (Australia), GPO Box 518 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2001.
Souvenirs of Sydney, (14 Mar 1992–10 May 1992), at Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Art Gallery Rd Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000.
Bridging Sydney, (16 Dec 2006–29 Apr 2007), at Museum of Sydney (Australia, estab. 1995), 37 Phillip Street Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000.
Project 7 - Harold Cazneaux: 1878 - 1953 (1975), (30 Aug 1975–28 Sep 1975), at Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Art Gallery Rd Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000.
Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, (30 Sep 2002–17 Nov 2002), at Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Art Gallery Rd Domain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000.