Tag Archives: dancers

The Australian Ballet’s special guests

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph showing Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn performing with the Australian Ballet is from the David Mist archive and was included in his 1969 publication, Sydney: a book of photographs.… More

Backstage at the ballet

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Kathy Hackett

96/44/1-5/4/112/1 Neg 915 As used in book on page 113 Image shows one of the cast making up

This photograph showing dancer backstage at Australian Ballet is from the David Mist archive and was included in his 1969 publication, Sydney: a book of photographs. The photograph was taken… More

Back to the Whisky à go go

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

Neg not used in Sydney book Image shows patron and dancers at THe Whisky A Go Go nightclub King's Cross. The club was frequented by R&R US troo...

David Mist shot this photograph whilst gathering images for his 1969 publication, Sydney: a book of photographs. The late 1960s was a boom time for… More

Bondi Surf Club Annual Ball, 1939

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

94/63/11/72 Glass negative, half plate, Bondi Surf Club Annual Ball at Mark Foy's Empress Ball Room,
Thomas Lennon, Sydney, Australia, 29 April 1939

This image from the Tom Lennon Photographic Archive is one of the more interesting party images from that collection. Described as The Bondi Surf Club annual ball… More

Ti Amo – from Cristina to Guillaume

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph of a postcard and a handmade greeting card was taken in the studio for the Circus! book and exhibition in 1997. Together the… More

Heady days at the Whisky à go go

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Kathy Hackett

96/44/1-5/4/119/2 Neg 5181 As used in book on page 118

David Mist shot this photograph whilst gathering images for his 1969 publication, Sydney: a book of photographs. The late 1960s was a boom time for… More

Rudolph Nureyev rehearsing

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Paula Bray

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o’er the waters wide, The exulting sense—the pulse’s maddening play, That… More

Shanghai, 1926

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph from an unknown studio shows Florence, ‘Bobby’ Broadhurst and an unidentified dance partner in Shanghai in 1926. The photograph was probably used to… More

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.