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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-06-08 human Christine Moje updated 2025-09-09 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005132b.htm person Cazneaux Harold Pierce FRPS AACR2 30 March 1878 19 June 1953 Place of Birth Wellington, New Zealand Place of Death Roseville, New South Wales, Australia Photographer Harold Cazneaux worked as a portrait and landscape photographer. In 1916, Cazneaux founded the amateur Sydney Camera Circle to break with typical British photographic conventions in favour of using Australian sunshine effects. He produced a series of portraits of well-known artists, musicians, and actors and many books.

His photograph of a giant Red River Gum in the Flinders Ranges in 1937 was exhibited in the London Salon of Photography, titles A Giant of the Arid North. A later version was exhibited in 1941, entitled The Spirit of Endurance. Known as the Cazneaux Tree, it is still a popular tourist destination in the Wilpena region of the Flinders Ranges.

1904 1918 Career position - Works at Freeman & Co. Ltd photographic studio, Sydney, New South Wales 1914 1914 Career event - Winner of Kodak 'Happy Moment' contest 1937 1937 Award - Honorary Fellow, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (FRPS)

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Cazneaux, Harold Pierce (1878-1953), photographer

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 'Cazneaux, Harold Pierce', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Cazneaux, Harold Pierce Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Eucalypts: a Celebration Wrigley, J.; and Fagg, M. Eucalypts: a Celebration Crows Nest Australia Allen & Unwin 2010

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 Book: Australian treescapes : a photographic study Mitchell, Elyne Australian treescapes : a photographic study Sydney Ure Smith 1950 Resource: Eucalypts Sheppard, H. et al. Eucalypts Australian Government 2007

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