Spirit Of Endurance
1937. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and inscribed in pencil on backing below image and verso, 9.3 x 11.1cm. Inscription reads “To Carmen & Ralph, best wishes and good cheer for 1940-1. From Cazzie family.” “In September 1941 Cazneaux’s only son, Harold Ramsay Cazneaux, was killed accidentally in Egypt while serving as a corporal with the 9th Division Australian Corps of Signals...He was said to have had a copy of his father’s famous photograph of the Wilpena river red gum with him when he died. It is not known why Cazneaux named the photograph Spirit of Endurance, but it may have been a general response to the death and suffering of the war.” Ref: Colloff, Flooded Forest and Desert Creek..., CSIRO, 2014, p208. Cazneaux called this photograph his “most Australian picture.” Held in AGNSW; NGA.
Item #CL185-60
Price (AUD): $8,800.00 other currencies