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, fashion, black and white, mounted on card, calico coats / fashion by Solo, models with guns and leopard skin, styling by Hazel Benini, photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1971
Models Jenny McKenzie (left) and Yvonne Rockman (right) wear Solo calico coats, with guns and leopard skin, safari theme styled by Hazel Benini, September 1971, printed 1971.
On reverse, upper right, written in pencil 'CALICO COATS BY SOLO (MELBOURNE) / MODELS - JENNIE MCKENZIE (LEFT) / YVONNE ROCKMAN (RIGHT), STUDIO - STYLING - HAZEL BENINI, SEPTEMBER 1971 / PRINTED '' ', upper right, written in blue ink, 'BRUNO-MELB', lower right stamped stamped 'BRUNO BENINI/ PHOTOGRAPHER / 6 McKILLOP ST. / MELBOURNE TEL 672633', upper left, written in pencil '14' in circle.

Photographed: Benini, Bruno; Melbourne, Victoria; 1970 - 1975

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1970 - 1975

597 mm

495 mm

2 mm