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Biography
(SILVER
AND GREY ONLINE)
ALFRED WILKINSON
1869-1940
Alfred
Wilkinson was born in England and emigrated to Australia around
1900. He was a silver engraver by profession but on
arrival found
there was insufficient work, even in the “Silver City” of
Broken Hill where he had settled, and turned to hairdressing.
Wilkinson later moved to Adelaide and set up a salon under
the name of Wilkinson
and Lodge.
Wilkinson
took up photography as an interest around 1915. He was a prolific
exhibitor and active official of the
Adelaide
Camera Club
until the 1930s.
It is
curious that Wilkinson’s shearing
scene (plate 16, Shearing, 1927) is one of the only known
photographs of this classically Australian
subject produced in the pictorial era.
above
text based on Gaël Newton's Silver & Grey Angus and Roberston, Australia 1980