ISBN |
0724101373 |
Name |
Crombie, Isobel author |
Title |
Athol Shmith, photographer / by Isobel Crombie. |
Published |
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1989. |
Description |
126pages, 72pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. ; 30 cm. |
Notes |
Simultaneously published: Melbourne : Schwartz Publishing. |
Note |
Bibliography: p. 125-126. |
Summary |
No discussion of the photographic history of Australia can proceed very far before the name Athol Shmith comes to fore. His career as a studio photographer spanned several decades from the nineteen-thirties when his first softly focused portraits were taken in the family sitting room in St Kilda, Melbourne, through a meteoric rise to popularity as a fashion and celebrity photographer, to the influential position of Head of Photography in the Prahran College of Advanced Education throughout the seventies. |
Subjects |
Shmith, Athol, -- 1914-1990 |
Photographers -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography |
Photographers -- Victoria -- Biography |
Photography -- Australia -- Portraits -- History |
Fashion photography -- Australia |
Photographers -- Australia -- Biography |
Photography -- Australia |
Photography, Artistic |
Portrait photography -- Australia |
Photographers -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)Biography |
Portrait photography |
Fashion photography |
Portrait photography -- Australia -- History |
Photographers -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Biography |
Australia |
Genre |
Biography. |
Biographies. |
Added Names |
Shmith, Athol, 1914-1990 artist |
Added Corporate Names |
National Gallery of Victoria issuing body |