This object is part of the Bruno Benini photography archive which was acquired by the Powerhouse Museum with the assistance of the Australian Government's National Cultural Heritage Account in 2009.

If Bruno Benini particularly liked a shot he'd taken, he would make a print or as Hazel Benini recalled, 'create a blow-up and then put it up on his studio wall'. The walls of the studio foyer were covered with these, mostly 20 x 24 inch, prints. Some of the prints were damaged over the years and thrown out, however many remain, with corner pin holes intact. This is one of those prints.

The Benini archive contains photographs showing how the Benini's displayed these prints in the foyer of the studio.

Photographic print, personal, black and white, mounted on card, model Susie Gasher, experiment with negative in the dark room, photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1970
Model in jumpsuit [and afro wig] repeated four times.
On reverse, upper centre, written in pencil, 'MODEL - SUSIE GASHLER / EXPERIMENTING WITH A NEGATIVE IN / THE DARKROOM 1970 / PRINTED 1970' , lower right corner, stamped 'BRUNO BENINI/ PHOTOGRAPHER / 6 McKILLOP ST. / MELBOURNE TEL 672633' and upper left, pencil, '68' in circle.

Photographed: Benini, Bruno; Melbourne, Victoria; 1970

2009/43/1-2/5

1970

499 mm

598 mm

3 mm