• Title
  Kings Cross, 1970-71 / photographed by Rennie Ellis
• Creator
  Rennie Ellis, 1940-2003
• Call number
  PXE 858
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  2000 (from original photonegatives made 1970-1971)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  411630
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 24 silver gelatin photoprints - 30.5 x 40.6 cm. and 40.6 x 30.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  01. Golden Orchid Strip Club, Kings Cross 1970-71
  02. Peace! US R & R sailors, Kings Cross 1970-71
  03. Between Strips, Kings Cross 1970-71
  04. Island Bar, Kings Cross 1970-71
  05. Carlotta, Kings Cross 1970-71
  06. R & R Servicemen, Kings Cross 1970-71
  07. Dressing Room, Paradise Club, Kings Cross 1970-71
  08. Yellow House, Kings Cross 1970-71
  09. Painter, Yellow House, Kings Cross 1970-71
  10. Alby Falzon, Yellow House, Kings Cross 1970-71
  11. Martin Sharp, Yellow House, Kings Cross 1970-71
  12. Moving In, Kings Cross 1970-71
  13. Working Girls, Kings Cross 1970-71
  14. The Chevron Hotel, Kings Cross 1970-71
  15. Drinks Party, Kings Cross 1970-71
  16. Folk Blues, Kings Cross 1970-71
  17. Working Girl, Kings Cross 1970-71
  18. US Serviceman and Girls, Kings Cross 1970-71
  19. Mamma Maria Kings Cross 1970-71
  20. Lucky Envelopes, Kings Cross 1970-71
  21. Red Baron Regulars, Kings Cross 1970-71
  22. Hare Krishna, Kings Cross 1970-71
  23. Auntie Mame, Kings Cross 1970-71
  24. Rosaleen Norton, Kings Cross 1970-71
• Copying Conditions
  Reproduction Restricted
• Published Information
  Several photographs were originally published in: Kings Cross Sydney ; a personal look at the Cross / by Rennie Ellis and Wesley Stacey. Melbourne : Thomas Nelson (Australia), 1971
• Description source
  
  Titles from Rennie Ellis Archive 2013
• Variant title
  
  No. 21 previously titled : US servicemen and girls outside the Red Baron restaurant
  Reference:
  Rennie Ellis Archive, June 2012
• General note
  
  "The photographs were shot over a six months period during the latter part of 1970 and early 1971 at a time when American servicemen from Vietnam were enjoying R & R [Rest & Recreation] breaks in Sydney. Many of them hung out in the Cross where all sorts of services had sprung up to help relieve them of their dollars. It was a unique time in the history of King's Cross. It was also the time when the famous, or was it infamous, Yellow House gallery was making an impact on the Sydney arts scene" -- Rennie Ellis, July 2000 (ML 290/73)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823980
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed, photographer's label & negative file numbers on reverse
• Name
  Carlotta
  Falzon, Alby
  Norton, Rosaleen, 1917-1979
  United States. Navy
  Vietnamese Conflict (1961-1975)
  
• Subject
  Sharp, Martin, 1942-2013--Photographs.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  Americans (United States)
  armed forces
  art galleries
  artists
  commissionaires
  dressing-rooms
  female impersonators
  film producers & directors
  flats
  groups (people)
  hairstyles
  Hare Krishnas
  hotel bars
  hotels & taverns
  Italians
  leisure
  miniskirts
  prostitutes
  raffles
  skulls
  street scenes
  strip joints
  strippers (dancers)
  tattoos (skin)
  
• Place
  Kings Cross (N.S.W.)
  Yellow House (Kings Cross, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  No standing only dancing : photographs of Rennie Ellis - National Gallery of Victoria (17 October, 2008 - 30 March, 2009). Applies to: nos. 8,9,11
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1126586

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