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 may be 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, portrait, black and white, mounted on card, nude portrait of dancer Antonio Rodrigues with hands reaching behind his back, photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1963-1975
On reverse, lower left, stamped ' BRUNO BENINI / [indecipherable] / MELBOURNE TEL 672633', upper left, in pencil, '38' in circle.

Photographed: Benini, Bruno; Melbourne, Victoria; 1975

2009/43/1-2/85

1975

606 mm

505 mm

1 mm