Tag Archives: industrial

Industrial art

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Paula Bray

This gorgeous detail of a rusting industrial object was taken by Museum photographer Jean Francoise Lanzarone as part of his documentation of Pyrmont and Ultimo… More

Industrial art

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Paula Bray

This image was taken by Museum photographer Penny Clay during her documentation of the Pyrmont Incinerator and surrounds in the 1990s. Pyrmont at the time… More

Berry’s Bay Industrial Heritage

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Geoff Barker

This picturesque photograph of Berry’s Bay was taken by the Sydney based photographer Charles Kerry around the turn of the century. Looking across Sydney Harbour… More

‘Kugellager’ by Adolf Lazi, Germany, 1938

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Iwona Hetherington

Job number: 05-0148 Copywork of Hedda Morrison collection for Website

Date of photography: 31/08/2005

This photograph was taken in 1938 by Adolf Lazi (1884-1955), a commercial German photographer from Stuttgart associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit (new objectivity, new realism)… 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.