• Title
  Louise Carbasse ca. 1913 / Rudolph Buchner
• Creator
  Rudolph Buchner
• Call number
  P1/304
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1913
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442279
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - silver gelatin photoprint - image 19.8 x 14.1 cm., on card 29.1 x 21.5 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Published : Glorious days : Australia 1913 / edited by Michelle Hetherington. Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2013 (cover)
• General note
  
  At the time of this photograph, brunette Louise Carbasse was `the clever Comedy Sketch Artist now starring with Rickards circuit'. Two years later she was in Hollywood and had metamorphosed into the blonde Louise Lovely. She appeared in about fifty-five motion pictures between 1911 and 1922 and was Australia's first Hollywood star of the silent era. Theatrical photographer Rudolf Buchner's image of her is carefully lit, so that Carbasse appears as an ethereal beauty. Not surprisingly, another of his portraits of her was used as an advertisement for `Bickford's Alpine Snow' moisturiser in The Theatre of June 1913. -- Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, 2003
  
  Transferred from P1/C (BM), December 2009
  Digital order no:a128725
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Rudolf / Buchner -- at lower right of mount
  "Louise Carbasse" -- in ink on reverse
  "Known as Louise Lovely" -- in pencil on reverse
  "Albert Buildings / 110 Bathurst Street / Sydney" -- stamped on reverse
• Name
  Lovely, Louise
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  film actors
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (8 January - 29 May, 2005)
  Glorious Days - National Museum of Australia

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