Isaac Polack b.

  • Artist (Photographer)
Isaac Polack was a professional photographer working in Sydney in the second half of the 1840s. His grandfather was Solomon Joel Polack, a London miniature painter.

Citations

  • Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia – Photography 1841-1900’, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Levi, J.S. (1976), 'The Forefathers – A Dictionary of Biography of the Jews of Australia 1788-1830’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Main, W. (1977), 'Auckland through a Victorian Lens’, Wellington, NZ.

  • Willis, A-M. (1988), 'Picturing Australia – A History of Photography’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1851), Empire, September, 3.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

Initial data sources

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