POWERHOUSE COLLECTION

Photographs from Italian Week by Bruno Benini

Object No. 2009/43/1-3/3

Photographic prints (2), black and white, photograph by Bruno Benini, Italian Week, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1974-1976

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Summary

Physical Description

Photographic prints (2), black and white, photograph by Bruno Benini, Italian Week, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1974-1976 Painted brick wall with classical moulded decorative ornament, and arrangement of Italian food [bread, grapes, and salami] and wine on tablecloth. 2009/43/1-3/3/1 On reverse in pencil 'Still life for poster for / Italian Week / styling - Hazel Benini', '117' in circle in upper left. 2009/43/1-3/3/2 On reverse, centre, written in pencil, 'Poster for Italian week / in Melbourne. / I think around / 1975'.

DIMENSIONS

Height

485 mm

Width

384 mm

HISTORY

Notes

This object is part of the Bruno Benini photography archive which was acquired by the Powerhouse Museum with the assistance of the Australian Government's National Cultural Heritage Account in 2009. If Bruno Benini particularly liked a shot he'd taken, he would make a print or as Hazel Benini recalled, 'create a blow-up and then put it up on his studio wall'. The walls of the studio foyer were covered with these, mostly 20 x 24 inch, prints. Some of the prints were damaged over the years and thrown out, however many remain, some with corner pin holes intact. The Benini archive contains photographs showing how the Benini's displayed these prints in the foyer of the studio. These may be some of those prints.

SOURCE

Acquisition Date

19 June 2009

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