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Can anyone help with the following query from a curator?
I am researching a series of some fifty studio tableaux photographs of
Australian Aboriginals made in Grafton, New South Wales circa 1872 by
the German-born Australian photographer J. W. Lindt (1845-1926). Lindt
is considered a major figure in nineteenth century photography in
Australia. Lindt actively marketed and exhibited the 1872 images
worldwide for some 30 years; first from Grafton where he had
established his first studio as well as by subscription from his later
Melbourne studios. Lindt won medals for his photographs in Australia as
well as in Philadelphia and Paris prior to 1880. Most prints are albumen
silver prints, some in carte-de-visite form. Several editions of a dozen
images were released in red, green and blue slip-case portfolios titled
Album of Australian Aboriginals. In the 1890s Lindt also made
enlargements on toned silver gelatin papers c1890 but appears to have
ceased supplying images after 1900. Lindt's portfolios in particular
appear to be among the most widely disseminated images of Australian
Aboriginal people in the 19th century.
I would be most grateful if you would inform me if your institution
holds any of the Aboriginal tableaux photographs or any other works by
Lindt (he did a series of similar tableaux showing European/Australian
squatters and miners). Any other documentary material, such as invoices
or correspondence would be of interest.
Please reply to me direct at: [log in to unmask]
Many thanks
J. Margaret Shaw
Chief Librarian
National Gallery of Australia Research Library
GPO Box 1150
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
Telephone: 61-(0)2-6240 6532
Fax: 61-(0)2-6273 2155
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