Harry Freeman collection of photographs, ca.1929-1981

PXE 992
ON 397

fonds

ca.1929-1981

Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs, Prints

457814

21 negatives - glass plate
1 album
photomechanical prints - colour
textual records - typescript, carbon typescript and photocopy
newscuttings
Approximately 520 photographic prints - predominantly silver gelatin

“During the late 20s and early 30s [Harry Freeman] was involved in press work, fashion (his love) and portraiture. He was also involved with some of Australia’s early motion pictures, such as Dad and Dave in Cinerama with producer Ken Hall, through to Rats of Tobruk, with the late Charles Chauvel. Mr Freeman worked overseas firstly in America and Hollywood where as a guest photographer he met and photographed some of the all time greats of the now TV reruns. Later in New York he was involved in fashion. After moving to England, he went to work on Fleet St. Mr Freeman was later posted to a Paris bureau, which enabled him to move from place to place and he was involved in the major happenings of those times. Up to the outbreak of World War II, he had photographed every crowned and uncrowned Head of State in Europe with the exception of Stalin and Franco. After he returned to Australia at the outbreak of war, he joined the AIF. Mr Freeman was sent to Japan and became responsible for all the still and motion picture records of the British Commonwealth of Nations, after which he returned to Australia and picked up the threads of earlier times. Mr Freeman retired in 1975. He is recognised by all photographers as truly a father of photographic art in Australia.” – “Two week display by photographer”, The Queensland Times, Friday, February 13, 1981, p.7 [with portrait of Harry Freeman, aged approx. 70]

SERIES 01: Fashion, advertising, performance and social photography
SERIES 02: Portraits & press photography - Australia
SERIES 03: Press photography – International
SERIES 04: Australian gardens, landscapes and nature studies
SERIES 05: Photo album compiled by Harry Freeman
SERIES 06: Travel photographs
SERIES 07: Portraits – Unidentified & identified
SERIES 08: Freeman family photographs
SERIES 09: Harry Freeman – Self-portraits and portraits with unidentified associates
SERIES 10: Harry Freeman’s property, Queensland, ca.1952-1970s
SERIES 11: Portraits of models and performers, children, and Harry Freeman, and landscapes, ca. 1930s?
SERIES 12: Textual material
SERIES 13: Newscuttings
SERIES 14: Colour magazines
SERIES 15: Colour photomechanical prints, chiefly magazine covers, ca.1949
SERIES 16: b&w fashion photography, ca. late 1960s-early 1970s, by other photographers
SERIES 17: Harry Freeman glass plate negatives, ca. 1930s
SERIES 18: Harry Freeman collection of further photographs, ca 1930s

Photographs are arranged by subject; other formats are grouped separately.