Title
Sam Sue, well known pearl buyer, Broome, Western Australia
1947
printed 1981
Artist
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Details
- Dates
- 1947
printed 1981 - Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 28.8 x 40.6 cm image; 37.2 x 47.7 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. sheet, pencil "Axel Poignant -1981". Dated l.l. sheet, pencil "...1947".
- Credit
- Purchased 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 176.1978
- Copyright
- © Courtesy Roslyn Poignant
- Artist information
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Axel Poignant
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
Axel Poignant: photographs 1922-1980, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Jul 1982–29 Aug 1982
Four Photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jun 1990–19 Aug 1990
Australian postwar photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Jun 2004–08 Aug 2004
6 photographers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Dec 2009–Feb 2010
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Natasha Bullock, Australian postwar photodocumentary, Sydney, 2004. no catalogue numbers
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Josef Lebovic Gallery and Helen Ennis, Masterpieces of Australian Photography, Twentieth Century Photography, Sydney, 1989, 184, 185 (illus). cat.no. 329
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Gael Newton, Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Hal Missingham, Axel Poignant retrospective, Sydney, 1982, (illus.). cat.no. 46
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Gael Newton, Silver and Grey - Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900-1950, 1980. plate no. 99
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Gael Newtown, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Photography - Australian, European and American', pg. 67-84, Sydney, 1981, 80. cat.no. 33
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