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CECIL.
W. BOSTOCK 1884-1939
Resources
Cecil Westmoreland Bostock: text based on Gael Newton's Silver & Grey
Australian Pictorial Photography, Gael Newton, 1979
Exhibition of a visionary early 20th century master Photographer - pdf Media Release
Link to Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Paddington, Sydney NSW >> Commercial Gallery
Exhibition: Lady Denman Heritage Complex, Huskisson 2005 (pdf)
Image Page for Cecil Bostock
Correspondence from Max Dupain to Gael Newton about Cecil Bostock. c.1978
Recent Exhibitions notices - organised by Lea Hallett-Cannon (Grand-daughter)
The Questions I Didn’t Ask: Cecil Bostock, Max Dupain and the Contemporary Camera Groupe, Gael Newton, November 2026
Research on Pictorialism in Australia
Exhibitions
1919: Royal Photographic Society Adelphi
1923: House of Royal Photographic society
1924-26: Australian Salon of Photography
1938: Contemporary Camera Groupe
1979: (June-July) Australian Pictorial Photography:
S H Ervin Museum & Gallery, Sydney
1979: (August) Australian
Pictorial Photography: Victorian College
of the Arts, Melbourne
1984 (?): Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- Highlights and Soft Shadows
1988: Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- Shades of Light.
1993: Mona Vale Library
2002: Art Gallery of NSW: Soft
Shadow Sharp Lines >>web >>pdf
2002: Shoto Museum,
Tokyo, Japan. >> web >> pdf
2003:
(unsure of year) Cecil Bostock: Master photographer >>pdf
2003: Ishida and
the Sydney Camera circle: Museum of Sydney >> web, >> pdf
2004: An Eye
for Photography: Mitchell Library (Survey show)
Timeline
CECIL.
W. BOSTOCK 1884-1939
1884: Born England
1888: Family moves to New South Wales (Father a bookbinder)
1892: Father dies/ Apprenticed as engineer in Waverley Tramway
Workshop
1901: Leaves home (after conflicts with mother over
wanting to be an artist)/ Career as commercial artist.
1915: (circa) Takes up photography
1916: (circa): Secretary Photographic Society of New
South Wales
1916 (circa): Foundation member of Sydney Camera Circle
1916 - (1927?):
Circle meets meets at Bostock's commercial artist' studio
1917: Publishes A Portfolio Of Art Photographs, 25
sets containing 10 small photos
1917 - 1918: Enlisted WWI - serves in France and Germany
1919-1920: England - meets future wife.
1919: Cazneaux works from Bostock's studio (after
leaving Freeman's)
1919:
Exhibition of watercolours in England.
1920:
Discharged from Army in Sydney. Marries
1920:
One-man exhibition watercolours of war scenes Adelphi Gallery
1920
(Feb): Professional Photographer - including advertising and industrial
illustration
1924, 1926: Edits and designs catalogues
for Cameragraphs:
Australian Salon Exhibitions
1927: (circa) Fashion photography for David Jones
(department store, Sydney).
1927: (circa) Photographs David Jones' window
displays - Harry Bhindof's fashion tableaux.
1929: Commissioned to record new Elizabeth St store
for David Jones.
1930-34: Max Dupain starts as apprentice for Bostock.
1934:
Largely responsible for the illustrations in The Book Of The Anzac
Memorial
NSW
1938: Instumental in forming 'The Contemporary
Camera Groupe'
1938: (December) One and only exhibition of The Groupe
- Bostock designs catalogue
1939: Dies of cancer
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