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, headshot, portrait of Jamayel wearing head scarf, necklace and bangles, photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1976

Photographed: Benini, Bruno; Melbourne, Victoria; 1976

On reverse, upper centre, written in black ink, ' MODEL JAMAYEL (PRINCESS FROM / KUWAIT) / 1976 / PRINTED '' ', lower centre, stamped 'BRUNO BENINI / PHOTOGRAPHER / 6 McKILLOP ST. / MELBOURNE TEL 672633', upper left, written in black ink, '33' in circle.

2009/43/1-2/88

1976

504 mm

401 mm

2 mm