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.

Newspaper publicity of this photograph can be found in the Ninette scrapbook in the Benini archive.

Photographic print, fashion, black and white, mounted on card, Ninette, models Kissane Codrington and John Ferguson, photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1972
Model Kissane Codrington wears Ninette lurex gown and cape, John Ferguson dressed as a wizard. Special effects by Hazel Benini, January 1972

Photographed: Benini, Bruno; Melbourne, Victoria; 1972

On reverse, upper right, written in pencil, 'NINETTE LUREX GOWN & CAPE / MODEL KISSANE CODRINGTON / WIZARD - JOHN FERGUSON / SPECIAL EFFECTS BY HAZEL BENINI / PHOTOGRAPHE - STUDIO JANUARY 1972 / PRINTED / NEWPAPER PUBLICITY IN NINETTE / SCRAPBOOK / 1972', upper right, written in blue ink, 'B-MELB', lower right, in blue ink, 'KISSANE CODRINGTON', lower right, stamped 'BRUNO BENINI/ PHOTOGRAPHER / 6 McKILLOP ST. [....] / MELBOURNE TEL 672633', upper left, written in pencil '16' in circle.

2009/43/1-2/39

1972

605 mm

446 mm

2 mm