• Title
  Item 10: Miners, Pacific Colliery, Hunter Valley, 1949 / photographer David Moore
• Call number
  PXD 720/10
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1997 photoprint from original photonegative made 1949
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  153588
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - gelatin silver - image 50.5 x 40.5 cm., on mount 65.5 x 52 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  Portraits of two miners (full-length)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Pacific Colliery commissioned photography of this mine operation. The assignment included taking photographs of the underground mines with an unprotected flash bulb on a quarter plate Speed Graphic camera. This was a very dangerous procedure due to the possibility of explosive gas.
  David Moore was employed at Max Dupain's studio from 1948-1951, when he left to pursue his career overseas, and again from 1958-1959. Moore left to further his career as a photojournalist -- Exhibition caption, 1997
  Digital order no:pxd72010
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Moore, David, 1927-2003
  
• Name
  Pacific Colliery
  
• Subject
  Portrait photography--New South Wales--20th century.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  coalminers
  smoking
  
• Place
  Hunter Valley (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The studio of Max Dupain : post-war photographs - State Library of New South Wales (12 August - 7 December, 1997)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1037007

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