Photograph of Helen Homewood & Arthur Leydin by Bruno Benini
Object No. 2009/43/1-2/8
Photographic print, fashion, black and white, mounted on card, Potter and Moore, models Helen Homewood and Arthur Leydin in Sherbrooke Forest bush landscape, photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1959
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Summary
Physical Description
Photographic print, fashion, black and white, mounted on card, Potter and Moore, models Helen Homewood and Arthur Leydin in Sherbrooke Forrest bush landscape, photograph by Bruno Benini, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1959 [Photographic print, black and white] Portrait of Helen Holmwood wearing wide-brimmed hat, Melbourne 1957
DIMENSIONS
Height
495 mm
Width
390 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. Helen Holmwood was one of Bruno's first mopdels. They met when she was a teenager as her mother ran a bookshop near his studio. Helen and friend Janice Wakely modelled frequently for Bruno from the 1950's. They later opened a modelling and photographic agency in Helmut Newton's old penthouse studio in Melbourne.
SOURCE
Acquisition Date
19 June 2009
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