POWERHOUSE COLLECTION

Photograph of Lucy Kirraly by Bruno Benini

Object No. 2009/43/1-2/6

Photographic print, personal, black and white, mounted on card, model Lucy Kirraly, experimental photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1976

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Summary

Physical Description

Photographic print, personal, black and white, mounted on card, model Lucy Kirraly, experimental photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1976 Head shot of model's face in profile, facing left, with hair flowing behind. On reverse, upper centre, written in pencil, 'PORTRAIT OF LUCY KIRALY JUNE 76 / EXPERIMENTING WITH BACK LIGHTING' and stamped [with some letters missing] 'BRUNO BENINI/ PHOTOGRAPHER / 6 McKILLOP ST. / MELBOURNE TEL 672633' , upper left, pencil, '60' in circle.

DIMENSIONS

Height

433 mm

Width

570 mm

Depth

2 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, with corner pin holes intact. This is one of those prints. The Benini archive contains photographs showing how the Benini's displayed these prints in the foyer of the studio.

SOURCE

Acquisition Date

19 June 2009

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