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 Lucy Kiraly, experimental photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1976
Head shot of model, facing camera, with wet-look hair.
On reverse, upper right, pencil, 'PORTRAIT OF LUCY KIRRALY / JUNE 76 / PRINTED '' '' / EXPERIMENTING WITH LIGHTING / EFFECTS', lower left, written in pencil 'Mr O'Connell / 39 48 11 542', upper left, written in pencil 'Andrew / 2881479 17th / Tuesday 7.00', upper centre and lower centre stamped 'BRUNO BENINI/ PHOTOGRAPHER / 6 McKILLOP ST. / MELBOURNE TEL 672633' , upper centre written '28' in a circle.

Photographed: Benini, Bruno; Melbourne, Victoria; 1976

2009/43/1-2/7

1976

596 mm

490 mm

2 mm