Title
Ernest Borgnine with his wife Rhoda and daughter Nancee read the comics taken in 1955 for The Saturday Evening Post
1955
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1955
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Edition
- 13/70
- Dimensions
- 34.5 x 35.8 cm image; 50.3 x 40.3 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed verso, pencil "Sid Avery". Dated verso, "... 1955...".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 1992
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 140.1992
- Copyright
- © Sid Avery Estate
- Artist information
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Sid Avery
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About
Sid Avery was an American photographer who was best known for capturing the private moments of legendary Hollywood celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn, as seen in his book, 'Hollywood at Home: A Family Album 1950-1965', published in 1990.
Avery's work in the 1950s and 60s was a departure from the glamorized portraits of an earlier Hollywood era when images of the stars were tightly controlled by the major film studios. It was often featured in publications such as Life, Look, Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. -
Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Hollywood at home, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 Jul 1992–05 Oct 1992
We Are Family, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1994–20 Nov 1994
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Sandra Byron, Hollywood at Home: Photographs by Sid Avery, Sydney, 1992. cat.no. 5
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