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Biography

(SILVER AND GREY ONLINE)


W. H. MOFFITT

1888-1948

William Heath Moffitt was born in Sydney and trained as a solicitor, later becoming a partner in the firm McDonell & Moffitt. He took up photography around 1920 and joined the Sydney Camera Circle in 1927.

In the 1930s Moffitt developed a distinctive, very graphic style of bromoiling probably using a series of paper negatives to reduce the image to a flat pattern of shape and line.

In August 1947 Moffitt wrote his only article on photography, “The Status of Pictorial Photography”, in which he defended the pictorialists’ right to use such processes as bromoil to achieve an artistic effect.

above text based on Gaël Newton's Silver & Grey
Angus and Roberston, Australia 1980

 


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