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Oswald Ziegler and the commercial application of contemporary Australian Photography in the mid Twentieth Century

Eric Riddler 1990


Appendix Nine - Ten - Eleven

9.   List of Illustrations

10. Bibliography

11. Sources and Acknowledgements


 

9. List of Illustrations

 
Originals in possession of author unless otherwise denoted.

Colour

  1. One Hundred Years in Victoria, 1934. An example of Oswald Ziegler’s work for Victoria’s Centenary including coloured photographs.

  2. Blue Mountains, 1939. Depicting a montage by Frank Hurley, the cover is tinted blue, an example of the colour theme in Ziegler’s books.

  3. Australian Photography, 1957. Designed by Strom Gould using a photograph by Athol Shmith, influenced by the then–recent introduction of television into Australia’s visual culture.

  4. Life at The Cross, 1965. A photograph of William Street turned on its side by Robert Walker. This and Australian Photography, 1947 are the only Ziegler publications to credit photographers on the front cover.

  5. Sydney Builds an Opera House, 1973. Max Dupain’s night photograph of the Opera House nearing completion. In versions of this image which have not been retouched a red crane can be seen under the moon and the awnings above the entrances have not had the granite facing applied.

Main Text Illustrations

  1. Otto Ziegler’s Victor Harbor and its Environs, South Australia’s Fashionable Seaside Resort and Shrine of Pleasure, 1921. Otto was Ziegler’s father. Collection of the Mitchell Library.

  2. W.E. Smith’s Croydon House, designed by Eric M. Nicholls c. 1949. Architecture, Volume 38, Number 2, April 1950. Collection of the Power Research Library, University of Sydney.

  3. Australian Photography, 1947, dust jacket by Gert Sellheim using a photograph by Paul Horne.

  4. Australian Photography, 1947, Arch of Steel by Harold Cazneaux and Forest Fantasy by V.S. Gadsby.

  5. Australian Photography, 1947. Architectural Design by Athol Shmith and Sheet Metal, Lysaghts, Newcastle by Russell Roberts.

  6. Mavis Ripper by Russell Roberts and The Curved Gum by Harold Cazneaux from Australian Photography, 1947.

  7. Australian Photography, 1957. J. Archer, Athol Shmith and Wall Texture by C.R. Bennett.

  8. Australian Photography, 1957, Pipeline for Peace by Muriel Jackson and Electrolytic Zinc Hobart by Wolfgang Sievers.

  9. Australian Photography ,1957, Back Street by Ivan Morley, Little Bourke Street by Kevin Aston and Woolloomooloo 1956 by Henry Talbot.

  10.  Romance in Paradise, 1938. Collection of the Mitchell Library.

  11.  Romance in Paradise, 1938, Stanwell Park and Jenolan Caves. Collection of the Mitchell Library.

  12.  Soul of a City, 1940. Photography by Max Dupain in a design by Douglas Annand. Art Network, Number 9, Autumn 1983, p 44. Collection of the Power Research Library, University of Sydney.

  13.  Soul of a City, c.1951. Dust Jacket designed by Gert Sellheim.

  14.  Soul of a City, c.1951. Photographs by Max Dupain et al., laid out by Gert Sellheim.

  15.  Soul of a City, 1962. Photography by Max Dupain on the dust jacket designed by Stan Ostoja- Kotkowski.

  16.  Soul of a City, 1962. Circular Quay by Max Dupain.

  17.  Soul of a City, 1962. Night images by Max Dupain.

  18.  Soul of a City, 1962. Sport images by Max Dupain.

  19.  Soul of a City, 1962. Bondi Beach images by Max Dupain.

  20.  Canberra A.C.T., 1961. Front cover.

  21.  Canberra A.C.T., 1961. Images of Canberra by David Moore et al.

  22.  Brisbane, Queensland’s Capital, 1949 (reprint). Title page.

  23.  Life at The Cross, 1965. Daytime photographs by Robert Walker.

  24.  Life at The Cross, 1965. Kings Cross nightlife by Robert Walker.

  25.  Life at The Cross, 1965. The arts by Robert Walker.

  26.  Sydney Builds an Opera House, 1973. Construction photographs by Max Dupain.

  27.  Sydney Builds an Opera House, 1973. Clean white and dirty white by Max Dupain.

  28.  Sydney Builds an Opera House, 1973. The Opera House by Max Dupain.

  29.  Review of the Lower North of South Australia… The Land of the Golden Grain, 1928. Wheat-all-Wheat. Collection of the Mitchell Library.

  30.  Blue Mountains, 1939. Design for Luxurious Living, advertisement.

  31. Goulburn, Queen City of the South, 1946. Reg Perrier’s images in layout by Gert Sellheim.

  32.  Penrith, 1948. Max Dupain’s images in layout by Gert Sellheim.

  33.  Newcastle 150 Years, 1947. Dust Jacket by Gert Sellheim using Max Dupain’s photographs.

  34.  Newcastle 150 Years, 1947. Another Sellheim/ Dupain combination.

  35.  Parramatta Pageant, 1955. Typical page from historical section.

  36.  Snowy Saga, 1956. Another historical section.

  37.  Symphony on a City, 1958. Introduction.

  38.  Symphony on a City, 1958. Newcastle’s cultural revolution.

  39.  Orange 1860-1960. Housing.

  40.  Sublime Vision, 1963. Wollongong’s youth by Arthur Cratchley.

  41.  Sublime Vision, 1963, Wollongong’s development by Arthur Cratchley et al.

 

 

II.   Appendix Illustrations

 

H. Walter Barnett. From Jack Cato’s The Story of the Camera in Australia, Melbourne, 1955. Collection of the Fisher Library.

John Carnemolla in 1974. From Australian Photography, March 1975.

Harold Cazneaux. From Cato text. Collection of the Fisher Library, University of Sydney.

Olive Cotton by Morton Collyer, c.1944. From Barbara Hall and Jenni Mathers’ Australian Women Photographers 1840- 1960, Melbourne, 1986. Collection of the Power Research Library, University of Sydney.

Margot Donald, self portrait, 1950. ibid, Collection of the Power Research Library, University of Sydney.

Max Dupain by Olive Cotton, 1938, Max Dupain, Max Dupain’s Australia, Melbourne, 1986. Collection of the Power Research Library, University of Sydney.

Jennifer Humphreys by Jill Crossley, 1958. Hall and Mathers’ text,
Collection of the Power Research Library.

Frank Hurley. From Cato text, Collection of the Fisher Library, University of Sydney.

Ivan Ive in 1966. From The Australasian Model Railroad Magazine, Volume 2, Number 22, September/ October 1966.

Luke Kynaston, self portrait in Hubcap Optics. From Oswald Ziegler’s Australian Photography, 1957, Sydney.

Laurence Le Guay. From Edmond Capon’s ‘Laurie Le Guay, Man of Vision’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, March 17, 1990.

Monte Luke. From Cato text. Collection of the Fisher Library, University of Sydney.

Henry Beaufoy Merlin. ibid. Collection of the Fisher Library, University of Sydney.

Margaret Michaelis in 1924. From the Hall and Mathers’ text. Collection of the Power Research Library, University of Sydney.

Hal Missingham by Max Dupain, c.1957. From Ziegler text.

David Moore in 1977, by Anthony Wolf. From Max Dupain, David Moore and Daniel Thomas’ ‘David Moore’, Contemporary Photographers Australia, Number 1, Melbourne, 1980. Collection of the Power Research Library.

Helmut Newton in 1957 by Athol Shmith. From John Cato and H. Dacre Stubbs’ ‘Athol Shmith’, Contemporary Photographers Australia, Number 2, Melbourne, 1980. Collection of the Power Research Library.

Stan Ostoja- Kotkowski by David Beal, 1969. From In the Making, Melbourne, 1969. Collection of the Power Research Library, University of Sydney.

Poul C. Poulsen. From Cato text. Collection of the Fisher Library, University of Sydney.

Athol Shmith, self- portrait, 1935. From Photofile, Volume 7, Number 4, Summer 1989.

Dr Julian Smith, From Cato text. Collection of the Fisher Library, University of Sydney.

 

 

VII.

Australian Photography Medals designed by Lyndon Dadswell.

Mary by Axel Poignant, gold medallion winner in 1947.

 

Forgotton Corner by Muriel Jackson, gold medallion winner in 1957.

 

VIII.

Ziegler’s dedication to Hal Missingham on Missingham’s copy of Australian Photography, 1947. Collection of the library of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Ziegler’s logo from Australian Photography, 1947.

Ziegler’s logo from Canberra A.C.T., 1961.

Chapter Titles from Parramatta Pageant, 1955. Designed by Strom Gould or Gert Sellheim under the direction of Oswald L. Ziegler.

 



10. Bibliography

 

I. Oswald Ziegler Publications mentioned in text (in chronological order)

 

Review of the Lower North of South Australia: The Land of the Golden Grain, Adelaide, 1928.

One Hundred Years in Victoria, Melbourne, 1934.

Victorian and Melbourne Centenary Celebrations 1934- 1935, Melbourne, 1936.

150 Years in Australia, Sydney, 1937.

Romance in Paradise, Sydney, 1938.

150 Years/ Australia 1788-1938, Sydney, 1938.

Greetings from the City of Sydney, Australia, 1788-1938, Sydney, 1938.

Blue Mountains, Sydney, 1939.

Soul of a City, Sydney, 1940.

Goulburn, Queen City of the South, Sydney, 1946.

This is My Home, Newcastle, 1947.

Newcastle 150 Years, Newcastle, 1947.

Brisbane, Queensland’s Capital, Sydney, 1947.

Australian Photography 1947, Sydney, 1947.

Goulburn, Queen City of the South, Goulburn, 1948.

Penrith, Sydney, 1948.

Valley of the Winds, Sydney, 1949.

Albury, Sydney, 1949.

Brisbane, Queensland’s Capital, Sydney, 1949.

Commonwealth of Australia Jubilee 1901-1951, Sydney, 1950.

Forbes, Sydney, 1951.

Soul of a City, Sydney, 1951.
Vale of Gloucester, Sydney, 1952.

Soul of a City, Sydney, 1953.

Coonamble Centenary, Sydney, 1955.

Parramatta Pageant, Sydney, 1955.

Kyogle 1839-1956, Sydney, 1956.

Snowy Saga, Sydney, 1956.

Brisbane, City in the Sun, Sydney, 1957.

Australian Photography, 1957, Sydney, 1957.

Symphony on a City, Sydney, 1958.

Gold Coast, Sydney, 1958.

Brisbane 1859- 1959, Sydney, 1958.

Goulburn, Gateway to the South, Sydney, 1959.

Randwick 1859-1959, Sydney, 1959.

New South Wales, a State of Prosperity, Sydney, 1960.

Orange 1860-1960, Sydney, 1960.

Snowy Saga, Sydney, 1960.

Canberra A.C.T., Sydney, 1961.

Soul of a City, Sydney, 1962.

Maitland 1863-1963, Sydney, 1963.

Sublime Vision, Sydney, 1963.

Australia from the Dawn of Time to the Present Day, Sydney, 1964.

Life at The Cross, Adelaide, 1965.

Australia 200, 1770-1970, Sydney, 1970.

Sydney Builds an Opera House, Sydney, 1973.

Sydney Has an Opera House, Sydney, 1974.

This is Sydney, Sydney, 1974.

This is Sydney, Sydney, 1975.

The Penfold Story, Sydney, 1975.

Australia, 1901-1976, Sydney, 1976.

This is Sydney, Sydney, 1976.

Randwick 1859-1976, Sydney, 1976.

E II R 25 Years, Sydney, 1977.

The Performers, unpublished, due out in late 1974.

 

II. Periodicals and Articles

 

Architecture/ Architecture in Australia

Printery Built on a Brickyard’, Volume 38, Number 2, April 1950, p 62.

Milo Dunphy    ‘Artist: Douglas Annand’, Volume 47, Number 1, January- March 1958, pp 66-67.

Peter Harrison  ‘Canberra- The Act of Faith’, Volume 53, Number 3, November 1963, pp 176-185.

Art and Australia

George Clarke   ‘Canberra Observed’, Volume 1, Number 3,
Tom Heath   November 1963, pp 58-71.

R. N. Johnson  ‘Leslie Wilkinson and His Architecture’, Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 1974, pp 58-71.

Hamish McDonald ‘Penleigh Boyd and the 1923 Exhibition of Modern European Art’, Volume 25, Number 4, Winter 1988, pp 506-511.

Ian McKay   ‘Lyndon Dadswell, Obituary’, Volume 24, Number 4, Winter 1987, pp 484- 486.

Art & Text

Judy Annear    ‘A Story of Modern Art, Outlining Some Problems for Australian Museums’, Number 17, April 1985, pp 63-72.

Art in Australia

Art Network

Ann Stephen  ‘Mass- Reproduced Photography in the Inter- War Years’, Number 9, Autumn 1983, pp 40- 45.

The Australasian Model Railroad Magazine

Front Cover, Volume 2, Number 22, September/ October 1966.

Australasian Photo- Review/ A.P- R

Australian Photography

John Carnemolla    ‘Life is Wild’, March 1975, pp 30-35, 64.

Contemporary Photographers: Australia

John Cato                 ‘Athol Shmith’, Number 2, 1980.
H. Dacre Stubbs

Max Dupain               ‘David Moore’, Number 1, 1980.
David Moore
Daniel Thomas

Contemporary Photography

The Home

Photofile

Max Dupain           ‘David Moore, Photographer’, Volume 2, Number 2, Winter 1984, pp 5-6.

Kris Hemensley    ‘Around and About Athol Shmith’, Volume 7, Number 4, Summer 1989, pp 27-29.

Martyn Jolley        ‘David Moore: A Life’, Volume 7, Number 1, Autumn 1989, pp 5- 7.

Mark Kimber       ‘Eric William Booth Robertson’, Volume 1, Number 3, Spring 1983, pp 1,4.

Anne- Marie Willis   ‘Commercial Photographers, Artists and Hippies’, Volume i, Number 3, Spring 1983, pp 8- 9.

Sands and McDougalls’ South Australia Directory

Sunday Afternoon with Peter Ross, A.B.C. Television

The Sydney Morning Herald

Edmond Capon    ‘Laurie Le Guay, Man of Vision’, Good Weekend, March 17, 1990.

Maisy Stapleton    ‘Hollywood’s Influence on Sydney’, January 27, 1990.

Walkabout

 

II. Exhibition Catalogues Etc

 

Jennie Boddington  Modern Australian Photographers, Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1976.

Jane Clark                Golden Summers: Heidelberg and Beyond,
Bridget Whitlaw        International Cultural Corporation of Australia, 1985.

Isobel Crombie        The New Vision: A Revolution in Photography,
Kate Davidson         1920-1940, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Helen Ennis              1987.

Isobel Crombie        Australian Photographs, Australian National Gallery,
Helen Ennis             Canberra, 1988.

Helen Ennis             Facing Facts: Documentary Photographs, Australian Kylie Scroope    National Gallery, Canberra, 1988.

Anthony Green         Photographic International, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, c. 1975.

Graham Howe         Aspects of Australian Photography, The Australian Centre for photography, Sydney 1974.

Patricia R.                 The Artist and the Patron: Aspects of Colonial Art
McDonald                 in New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South
Barry Pearce            Wales, Sydney, 1988.

Jean- Marc                Australian Photography Yearbook, Melbourne, 1983.
Le Pechoux  
Peter Beilby 

Sue Smith                 Queensland Pictorial Photography 1920-1950, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1984.

Edward Steichen     The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jerry Mason 1955.

Daniel Thomas        Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art, Art Gallery of South Ron Radford  Australia, Adelaide, 1988.

Daniel Thomas        Antipodean Vision, Melbourne, 1962 for tour of England Clive Turnbull   and Canada.
Elizabeth Young

 

 

IV. Texts

Australian National Bibliography, 1901-1950, Canberra, 1983.

Australian Treescapes, Sydney, c. 1950.

In the Making, Melbourne, 1969.

National Capital Development Commission Planning Report, February 28, 1961, Canberra.

Max Angas  The World of Olegas Truchanas, Hobart, 1975.

Robin Boyd   The Australian Ugliness, Melbourne, 1960.

Jack Cato    The Story of the Camera in Australia, Melbourne, 1955.

Max Dupain  Max Dupain’s Australia, Melbourne, 1986.

Andrew Garran   The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Sydney, 1886. Reprinted as One Hundred Years in Australia, Sydney, 1974, Victorian section as Historical Sketch of Victoria, Sydney, 1980.

Barbara Hall   Australian Women Photographers, 1840- 1960, Jenni Mathers  Melbourne, 1986.

Frank Hurley   Sydney, a Camera Study, Sydney, 1948, revised, Sydney, 1958.

Sydney From the Sky, Sydney, 1952.

The Blue Mountains and Jenolan Caves, a Camera Study, Sydney, 1952.

Australia, a Camera Study, Sydney, 1955.

Joan Kerr Dictionary of Australian Artists, Working Paper 1. Painters, Photographers and Engravers, A- H, 1770- 1870, Sydney, 1984.

Alan McCulloch   Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Melbourne, 1984.

David Moore  David Moore: Photographer, Sydney, 1988.

Gwen Morton-  Spencer   Sam Ure Smith  Portrait of Sydney, Sydney, c. 1950.

Gael Newton  Silver and Grey, Sydney, 1980.

Peter Spearitt     Sydney Since the Twenties, Sydney, 1978.

John Yeomans    The Twenty Best Sights of Sydney, Sydney, 1978.

Otto Ziegler    Victor Harbor and its Environs, South Australia’s Fashionable Seaside Resort and Shrine of Pleasure, Adelaide, 1921.

 

 



11. Sources and Acknowledgements

 

The following libraries have been used to research this thesis.

 

Newcastle City Library

Parramatta City Library

Public Library of Victoria, including the La Trobe Library.

Ryde Municipal Library

The State Library of New South Wales, including the Mitchell Library.

Sydney City Library.

The University of Sydney Libraries, the Fisher Library, the Power Research Library and the general catalogue.

Wollongong City Library.

Particular thanks to the staff of both the Newcastle City Library and the Public Picture Library of Victoria for their help in the adverse conditions affecting the libraries over the past year.

 

Bookstores

Many Bookstores and markets have been useful but the following stores have been particularly helpful.

The Cornstalk Bookstore in both Glebe and Newtown.

The Old Church Bookshop, Carlingford.

Elizabeth Campbell Books, Prahran.

Dial- a- book, Newport.

Cooks Hill Books and Records, Cooks Hill.

Books of Yesteryear, late of Wynyard.

Louella Kerr Bookshop, Paddington.

Rice’s Bookshop, Wickham/ Newcastle West.

Haymes and Sons, Woollahra.

Books Bought and Sold, Haymarket.

Gould’s Newtown.

 

I am also grateful to Mishka Buhler and Dr. Alan Krell for their offers to help by conducting interstate research. Associate Professors Joan Kerr and Terry Smith as well as John Spencer, all of the Power Department of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, have been helpful with advice. My apologies for the inconsistency of the typing and colour photography. One shouldn’t blame one’s equipment by mine didn’t help.

Colour Photography in original copy of this work printed on Kodak paper by Cut- Price Photographics, Eastwood, Colour in the copied version by the University of Sydney Copy Centre using Canon Laser Printer.
Both copies bound by Prestige Binding of Parramatta.
Appendicies I- VII printed on Macintosh at the University of Sydney.
Page numbers set in Letraset Helvetica 14 point. Colour illustrations numbered by Geotype Helvetica 14 point.

Errata.
p. 101. Robert Klippel is pictured at work in Life at the Cross, 1965. See thesis illustration 25, p 58. Other artists are unidentified. <SECOND THOUGHTS: OTHER ARTISTS INCLUDE SHEILA MACDONALD (PICTURED OPPOSITE KLIPPEL)>
pp 110, 116. In The Making, Melbourne, 1969, is not, as listed in the list of illustrations and the bibliography anonymous. It was, in fact edited by Craig McGregor. My apologies for the error which was caused by a rough note being mistaken for a textual reference.
Addendum.
p 90. Cameron Studios, Maitland, Maitland, 1863- 1963.

 

 



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