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When Woolley travelled he did not take any dark room tents with him in the forests. He scavenged caravans the travelled the road regularly for wet-plate landscapes. <ref>{{cite book|last1=Cato|first1=Jack|title=The story of the camera in Australia|date=1977|publisher=Institute of Australian Photography|location=Melbourne|isbn=0959683909|page=168|edition=2nd ed.}}</ref> |
When Woolley travelled he did not take any dark room tents with him in the forests. He scavenged caravans the travelled the road regularly for wet-plate landscapes. <ref>{{cite book|last1=Cato|first1=Jack|title=The story of the camera in Australia|date=1977|publisher=Institute of Australian Photography|location=Melbourne|isbn=0959683909|page=168|edition=2nd ed.}}</ref> |
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== Early Works == |
== Early Works == |
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His first photograph was “Rocking Stone, on Mount Wellington” was printed on a stereo card, sepia 8 x 7.<ref>http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=136549</ref> |
His first photograph was “Rocking Stone, on Mount Wellington” was printed on a stereo card, sepia 8 x 7.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=136549|website=State Library Tasmania|accessdate=20 April 2015}}</ref> |
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Charles A. Woolley | |
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 Truganini | |
| Born | 17/12/1834 Hobart Town, Tasmania, Australia |
| Died | 1922 Hobart Town |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, Sketcher |
| Years active | 1859 to 1870 |
| Known for | Photographic Portraits |
| Notable work | Trugannini |
Charles Alfred Woolley, born on December 17th 1834 in Hobart Town, Tasmania, Australia. He was an Australian photographer but also had other professions such as; drawing, portraiture and visual art. From 1859 to 1970 in Macquarie Street in Hobart, he worked in a studio generating various portraits as well as stereotypes of Hobart and other areas. He died in 1922 in Hobart Town.
When Woolley travelled he did not take any dark room tents with him in the forests. He scavenged caravans the travelled the road regularly for wet-plate landscapes. [1]
Early Works
His first photograph was “Rocking Stone, on Mount Wellington” was printed on a stereo card, sepia 8 x 7.[2] http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/find/?author=Woolley%2c+Charles+Alfred%2c+1834-1922
His Works
Major Thomas Wingate, from Sydney, was amateur photographer and painter that Woolley worked with on “costume tableaux” 1866. He also worked with Louisa Anne Meredith on the “First Tableau, left group” 1866.[3] Some of his famous works are; Trukanini and William Lanne. Both taken in 1866 and were exhibited at the Intercolonoial Exhibition in Melbourne. These works are now presented in the National Library, and the State Libraries of New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria.[4]
References
- ^ Cato, Jack (1977). The story of the camera in Australia (2nd ed. ed.). Melbourne: Institute of Australian Photography. p. 168. ISBN 0959683909.
{{cite book}}:|edition=has extra text (help) - ^ State Library Tasmania http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=136549. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Davidson, Gael Newton ; with essays by Helen Ennis and Chris Long and assistance from Isobel Crombie and Kate (1988). Shades of light : photography and Australia, 1839-1988 (1. publ. ed.). Canberra: Australian National Gallery. p. 38. ISBN 0642081522.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ http://www.portrait.gov.au/people/charles-woolley-1834