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Wolfgang Sievers (b.1913)
Matches at Bryant and May 1939
1 of 5 photographs: gelatin silver on
resin-coated paper; 24.9 x 19.1 cm
Pictures Collection,
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The photographic archive of Wolfgang Sievers, who is widely regarded as Australia’s greatest industrial photographer, is to become part of the National Library’s Pictures Collection. Sievers' archive documents the postwar boom in manufacturing and the working conditions of many Australians and contains images of industries now long gone, including the spinning mills of Wangaratta and the Bryant and May match factory. Sievers' own overriding concerns, however, are the dignity of labour, the beauty and excitement of the forms of industry and architecture, and the properties of light and darkness.

 

January 2003 Volume XIII Number 4

A TOUR THROUGH THE BRITISH COLONIES: EMPIRE EXPRESSED THROUGH NINETEENTH-CENTURY POPULAR CULTURE

Christa Knellwolf takes us round the British colonial world by way of games, puzzles and books

THE DIGNITY OF MAN AS A WORKER: THE SIEVERS ARCHIVE

Linda Groom describes the photographic archive of Wolfgang Sievers, which the National Library has recently acquired

BUNYIPPY TRAITS: PETER O'SHAUGHNESSY, BARRY HUMPHRIES AND BUNYIPS ON STAGE

Richard Stone considers the history of the bunyip character and famous stage renditions

GETTING THE BIG PICTURE: PICTUREAUSTRALIA

Ann Nugent explores the development of PictureAustralia, the online pictorial resource

FOR THE SAKE OF ALL WOMEN

Jennifer M.T. Carter discusses the life of Georgina King (1845-1932), Australia’s first woman geologist

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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