Monthly Archive for August, 2008

This image taken c. 1880-1923 in The Rocks in Sydney is from the Tyrrell photographic collection. It is also featured on the Commons project on Flickr where one member has added a note over a building on the right side of the image, marked as ‘Today this is part of Susannah Place Museum’. This museum, managed by the Historic Houses Trust allows visitors to explore domestic working life as it was originally like in 1844, the year it was built. The Museum consists of four houses and includes a corner shop and sells goods from the era. This is how the building looks today from the same perspective taken by Flickr member agentsarah6 titled ‘Old Building 01’.

If you have any information about this image we would love to hear from you.

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This macro shot of a pink frangipani was photographed in Sawtel just south of Coffs Harbour whilst we were on location shooting for the exhibition Yinalung yenu: women’s journey. We travelled to Coffs Harbour to photograph one of the Indigenous women featured in the exhibition to record her story and photograph her. We ended up staying at a place south of her property at Sawtel. We were about to leave when this plant took my attention, particularly the bud that was about to open. Not intended for the exhibition but captured due to its colour and shape.

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Photography by Paula Bray
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0

This is a reproduction from a glass plate negative from the Tyrrell photographic collection showing Circular Quay in Sydney, looking south-east. This image was photographed from what is now the overseas passenger terminal at Circular Quay. There are six vessels here including cargo steamers, steamer ferries and naval ships, one is named ‘Leveret’. One of the ferries, called the ‘Koree’, commenced service in 1902. The double-ended steamer was 141 feet in length and was capable of carrying 1080 passengers. The ferry was retired and broken up in 1934.

Some of the commercial businesses at the time occupying the buildings in the background include the Pastoral Finance Association Ltd, Dalgety Co Ltd, Macquarie Bond, John Bridge and Co Wool and Produce Brokers, Goldsbrough Mort and Co and Watson’s Paragon Hotel.

If you have taken an image from the same perspective as this one then we would love you to post this in our Tyrrell Today group on Flickr. We are asking people to take contemporary shots from the same location as seen in our Tyrrell photographic images.

This image is attributed to Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1902-1917.

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This image was taken by one of the members in our new group on Flickr called Modern Times: modernism in Australia. We are asking for people to post their images that represent this era from a contemporary perspective. We are running this group during our new exhibition on modernism and will be occasionally blogging some of our favourites from the group.

This great black and white image was taken at the Journal Canteen in Melbourne. It was shot with a 6×6 Rolleiflex at f2.8, using Tri-X film at 400 ISO. The photographer says this is a favourite hangout in what is known as the ‘quartier’ on the corner of Degraves and Flinders Lane in Melbourne. This is the first image from the group to be added to Photo of the Day and is a great representation of modernism from a contemporary perspective, using the square format of the Rolleiflex and the black and white film shot in what could be an espresso bar in the 50s or 60s. If you have any images you would like to contribute please join the group, we’d love to see them!

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This image of a section of the entrance to the amusement site Luna Park at North Sydney was photographed during a research trip to North Sydney pool when we first decided to do a photographic immersive on swimming pools for our current exhibition on modernism in Australia. This was not intended for the immersive but photographed on location anyway.

This heritage-listed park opened in 1935 after Luna Park Glenelg was dismantled and transported up to Sydney to its new home on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour. The entry face has had many refurbishments over the years but after 1979 the National Trust of Australia listed the face as an item of national heritage.

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Photography by Paula Bray
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