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62 Rennie Ellis (Australian, 1940-2003)
After The Party, El Alamein Fountain, Kings Cross, 1970. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and signed in pencil by Kerry Oldfield Ellis in authentication stamp verso, 15.6 x 23.2cm.
$4,400

63 Rennie Ellis (Australian, 1940-2003)
Nude With Peace Sign, Kings Cross, 1970. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and signed in pencil by Kerry Oldfield Ellis in authentication stamp verso, 23 x 15.3cm.
$4,400

64 Rennie Ellis (Australian, 1940-2003)
Peace! Kings Cross, 1970/2000. Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and signed in pencil by Kerry Oldfield Ellis in authentication stamp verso, 36.8 x 23.8cm.
$2,800

65 Juno Gemes (Australian, b.1944)
Oyster Shed At Binskins Bay, 1987/2004. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in ink in lower margin, signed, titled and dated in pencil verso, 44.3 x 28.9cm.
Cover image for the book The Language of Oysters by Juno Gemes with poems by Robert Adamson, published in 1997.
$2,200

66 Bill Henson (Australian, b.1955)
Untitled Sequence [Man With Child], 1980/1982. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and signed in ink in lower margin, 37.9 x 38.8cm. Minor stains to lower left and right margins. Laid down on board.
Illustrated in Henson, Mnemosyne, 2005, p172.
$4,400

67 Brett Hilder (Australian, b.1946)
Deco Badge II, 1972. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed in ink in lower margin, titled and dated in pencil verso, 36.9 x 24.6cm. Slight cracking to upper right and lower left corners of image, minor stains and wear to corners of margins.
Brett Hilder's photographic work includes fashion, portraiture and landscape. In the 1960s and 1970s, his unique fashion photography was published in magazines including Vogue and POL. In the mid 1970s Hilder lived and worked in London and Paris. On his return to Australia he extended his work into theatre and film and produced a film of the life of Mexican/Italian photographer Tina Modotti.
$2,900

68 Brett Hilder (Australian, b.1946)
Roses ("Como Fue"), 1996/2002. Toned silver gelatin photograph, signed in ink in lower margin, titled, dated and annotated in pencil verso, 22.7 x 15.2cm.
Annotation reads "Print made in Hill End." This photograph appears in Hilder's film Como Fue which is based on of the life of Mexican/Italian photographer Tina Modotti.
$1,650

69 Frank Hurley (Australian, 1885-1962)
Lotus Floe 'Neath The Barrier Brink, c1911-1913. Vintage green-toned carbon print, titled and numbered "53" in ink in another hand on accompanying Fine Art Society exhibition label, 57.6 x 72.7cm. Slight stains to centre left, retouching to emulsion on right side, repairs to edges.
Label reads "This photograph is enlarged from a negative taken during Dr Mawson's Australasian Antarctic expedition, and is copyright in all countries. Sole agents: The Fine Art Society. 148, New Bond Street, London." The title comes from a poem by Dr A.L. McLean, who was Mawson's chief medical officer and editor of the expedition's Adelie Blizzard, a monthly publication "which helped to relieve the monotony."
$13,500

70 Frank Hurley (Australian, 1885-1962)
[Infantrymen Of The 1st Division During A Rest In The Dugouts At Ypres], 1917. Vintage brown-toned carbon print, 40.5 x 51cm. In original frame.
Illustrated with caption in Ennis, Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas, 2002, p36 and in O'Keefe, Hurley at War, 1986, p39: "In Ypres the troops often lived in underground cellars, but almost continuous shelling from the German lines made the ruined city nearly as dangerous as the front lines. [From Hurley diary, Sept 23 1917]. Getting to and from it from Steenvorde, where Hurley had his quarters and photographic darkroom, was a constantly hazardous undertaking."
$16,500$1,000

71 Frank Hurley (Australian, 1885-1962)
The Crystal Canoe, The Fortuna Glacier [Antarctica], 1917/1922. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 21.1 x 55.4cm. Retouching to centre of image, slight silvering and discolouration to edges of image.
Illustrated in Ennis, Man with a Camera, 2002, p32 and Millar, From Snowdrift to Shellfire, 1984, p43. Taken on the Shackleton expedition.
$11,000
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