Aboriginal Girl With Her First Born Baby
1942/1978. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in ink in lower margin, photographer’s stamp, captioned, dated, signed and copyright notation in pencil and ink verso, 32.8 x 28.4cm. Minor cockling and silvering. Caption continues “photographed at cattle station on Canning Stock Route [WA].” Stamp includes “Copyright Axel Poignant, 17 Oakcroft Road, London SE13.” Illustrated in Ziegler, Australian photography, 1947, p31. Held in AGNSW. A typed sheet with exhibition and publishing information accompanies this item. Rare, signed work by Poignant and a key image from his documentary series on Western Australian Aboriginal people.
Item #CL195-138
Price (AUD): $3,950.00 other currencies