Monthly Archive for August, 2008

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Underwater at Enfield

Published by imageservices on August 11, 2008 0 Comments

This underwater image was taken at Enfield pool in Sydney. Jean-Francois hired an underwater housing unit for a digital SLR and spent quite a bit of time in the water shooting for an immersive about swimming pools that is featured in our new exhibition on modernism in Australia. This image is receiving a far amount of interest in our Flickr account since it was posted last week. Jean-Francois says it was a challenge to work underwater and had to shoot twice as much as he would normally to get a shot. This one seems to have been taken just at the right moment. Let use know if you have experimented with underwater photography, we would love to hear about your experience.

Photography by Jean-Francois Lanzarone.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0

Australian Bank of Commerce

Published by imageservices on August 10, 2008 0 Comments

This reproduction, from a glass plate negative, shows the Australian Bank of Commerce building on the corner of George and King Street in Sydney. The Australian Joint Stock building which later became the Australian Bank of Commerce and the Bank of New South Wales was designed by Charles Blackman and Varney Parkes. This was a highly ornate building with carved figures, motifs, columns and arches. The entrance had two marble figures that were carved in London by C Birch.

If you have a photo taken at this location you could post it to our Tyrrell Today group on Flickr where we are asking for contemporary images to match the locations of our historic reproductions from the Tyrrell photographic collection.

This image is attributed to Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917.

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Sydney Opera House sail and cloud

Published by imageservices on August 9, 2008 0 Comments

This minimalist, graphic image of one of the sails of the Sydney Opera House was photographed for our new exhibition on modernism in Australia. The Musuem photographers have been experimenting with photographing some of the classic city sites that have been important in the modernist era. Danish architect Jørn Utzon designed the Sydney Opera House after he won a competition in 1957 after submitting preliminary sketches.

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Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski.
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We are going modern

Published by imageservices on August 8, 2008 0 Comments

This image has been taken at the stairs looking up to Australia Square that was designed by the architect Harry Seidler. This was shot using available light at 1/80 sec at f/7.1 with the ISO set at 100. Obviously the wide angle lens was used at 17mm. Harry Seidler and Associates tells how the 50 story, circular tower replaced 30 old properties already on the site. Much of this site was designed for the public to enjoy a space where people could gather particularly during lunchtime.

Marinco photographed this for the exhibition Modern Times: the untold story of modernism in Australia which opens today.

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Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski

Australia Square

Published by imageservices on August 7, 2008 0 Comments

This image was taken at Australia Square in Sydney. The Museum photographers have been experimenting with representing modernism from a contemporary perspective. We have been concentrating on city sites including Australia Square and how this site is seen and viewed today. This shot shows Australia Square from below with a section of the steel structure by Alexander Calder. He was an American artist known for his sculptures and for inventing the mobile. You can see more of his work through the Calder Foundation.

We will be showcasing what we have shot during our exhibition Modern Times: the untold story of modernism in Australia which opens tomorrow and of course we would love to see your images in our Modern Times group on Flickr.

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Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
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Gold mining, New England

Published by imageservices on August 6, 2008 0 Comments

This reproduction from a glass plate negative shows a man, believed to be Stephenson Moore, at the entrance to a mine. He was the son of Samuel Moore and Catherine McMullen, born in 1853 at Wollombi, New South Wales. Moore owned a goldmine at Baker’s Creek near Hillgrove, New South Wales in 1889. He owned the mine in partnership with three other men Speare, McBean and another unknown man. Moore was a shopkeeper and the other partners were a banker, policeman and undertaker. There are three other men in this image standing further up the hill that are easily missed at a first glance but it is possible that these men are Moore’s partners. Moore died in 1919 and is buried at Jilliby, New South Wales.

This image is from the Tyrrell photographic collection and has been posted on the Commons project on Flickr.

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Diving in

Published by imageservices on August 5, 2008 2 Comments

This image was taken at Enfield pool in Sydney. Our photographer, Jean-François, spent over an hour in the water taking shots for the photographic immersive on swimming pools that will be featured in the exhibition Modern Times: the untold story of modernism in Australia. The immersive experience highlights five pools including this one at Enfield that was designed by prominent architects Rudder and Grout and completed in 1933.

This shot was taken by housing the digital SLR in a unit that was watertight, similar to this one at Wetpixel. It was shot with the ISO set at 100, the aperture at 7.1 and the speed at 1/400 sec whilst the lens set at 23mm.

If you have any images taken at any of the pools designed by Rudder and Grout you might like to post them in our new group on Flickr called Modern Times: modernism in Australia. We would love to see them!

Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0

Lane swimming only

Published by imageservices on August 4, 2008 3 Comments

This image was taken at Centenary Pool in Brisbane. The Museum photographer has taken this shot from the top of the ‘Jetson’-like modernist building that was posted on Photo of the Day last Friday. Jean-françois traveled to Brisbane to specifically photograph this amazing pool for a photographic immersive that will be featured in our new exhibition Modern Times: the untold story of modernism in Australia , which opens on Friday.

This pool was constructed in 1959 and was the main city aquatic sports centre from 1959 to 1980. It was designed by James Birrell and his staff and was the first pool to be designed by the City Architect instead of the engineers. You can read more about its history at the Environmental Protection Agency Queensland Government.

Photography by Jean-françois Lanzarone.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0

Modern city life

Published by imageservices on August 3, 2008 0 Comments

This image is of a section of the MLC Centre taken in Martin Place, Sydney. Originally shot in colour as a raw file and changed to grayscale to represent modernism as perhaps it would have been at the time. This was taken for our exhibition Modern Times: the untold story of modernism in Australia that will open this week. The Museum photographers have used some city architecture and spaces as an influence to experiment with the style known as modernism. We have focused on the architectural work of Harry Seidler, including Australia Square, MLC Centre and the Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre. Whilst also looking at the Sydney Opera House, the Dental hospital, general city spaces and a few swimming pools built by architects Rudder and Grout.

Photography by Sotha Bourn
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Australian kangaroo

Published by imageservices on August 2, 2008 2 Comments

This image, from the Tyrrell photographic collection, was loaded to the Commons project on Flickr along with another image titled The Zoo, Moore Park, Sydney. It is likely that this image was taken at the site of the first zoo in Sydney. This particular image has the expansive date range of c. 1800-1900 but was probably taken after 1880 when an agreement between Sydney City Council and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales allowed the society to lease land at Moore Park for a zoo. The area was known as Billy Goat Swamp and is now the location of Sydney Girl’s High School on the corner of Cleveland Street and Anzac Parade. This site became too small and problematic so a new site was needed which led to Taronga Park Zoo opening in October 1916.

Henry King who became the sole proprietor of a photographic studio in George Street in 1880 took this image. Henry King’s studio closed around 1900 and Charles Kerry acquired some of his negatives.

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