A. V. Smith

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer and miner, ran a photographic business in the 1850s, acquiring Saul Solomon's reputed collection of 17,000 glass plate negatives in the process. Smith and his brother produced a series of local shots under the title 'Photographs of our village' for the Ballarat Mechanics Institute Exhibition in 1869.

Citations

  • Davies, Alan; & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, VIC : Oxford Uniiversity Press.

  • Webber, K., 'Photographers in Ballarat and environs’, (Manuscript).

  • Information sourced from Fox, Paul.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870