Axel Poignant: Photographs 1922-1980

Axel Poignant
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A retrospective exhibition of the work of Axel Poignant, born 1906, mounted by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1982. #0920 Featuring Arnhem Land Aborigines

After moving to Perth with his first wife in 1930 Poignant gained an interest in photography as a personal career when he invested in a Leica camera in 1933 and specialised in portrait photography through Muriel Chase. Not long afterwards, Poignant and Stuart Gore decided to open a studio together in London where they worked on an aerial photographic survey of the Western Australian goldfields. Photographs of karri logging at

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AuthorAxel Poignant
PublisherArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Year Published1982
Book Condition

FINE

Binding Type

Softcover

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