Pictorialism to Modernism
Australian Photographers from the 20th Century

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1 Cecil Bostock (1884-1939)
By 1916, he was a member of the elite Sydney Camera Circle, among other associations, and in 1917, he produced his Portfolio of Art Photographs. After the war, he concentrated on commercial photography for David Jones, and some industrial photography. He encouraged Harold Cazneaux to become a freelance photographer, and Max Dupain trained in his studio from 1930-33.

A Portfolio of Art Photographs, 1917. Ten silver gelatin prints, folio numbered 18/25, each photograph titled and signed below on original album page.
Provenance: HL White, "Belltrees", Scone. The first Australian folio of fine art photography. Only a few of the edition of 25 have survived complete and as issued.
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 The Portfolio
$33,000
a The City's Highway
14.2 x 18.9cm. (two diagonal creases lower left corner, retouching upper right corner, silvering to edges)
b The Byeway
15.4 x 7.6cm
c A Decoration
19.5 x 12.8cm
d The Tri-Trees
13.4 x 19.6cm
e The Winding Road
11.8 x 11.3cm
f Nude Study
f15.7 x 11.2cm (Illustrated in "Silver and Grey", Gael Newton, A & R, Sydney, 1980, cover and plate 26)
g Landscape - Ryde
15.6 x 20.5cm (repaired tear lower left corner)
h Gone are the Days
15.6 x 20.3cm
i Eventide
12.8 x 19.8cm
j Guardians of the Pool
15.5 x 20.5cm. Slight foxing throughout folio on original album pages.