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professional photographer, was a Scottish Presbyterian in partnership with Avarne at the Victorian gold town of Bendigo in the late 1850s. He may be the architect 'David’ Ness who was taught photography by Walter Woodbury in 1855. By 1859 John Ness had his own photographic practice in Bull Street, Bendigo. He took over the former Pall Mall studio of John Gladstone about 1861 but two years later was working in Brisbane Street, Ipswich, Queensland, where he advertised sennotypes, having purchased details of the process and the right to use it from Charles Wilson . Ness probably used a portable studio (a tent). In December 1864 he was in West Street, Ipswich, but within a few days had moved to Nicholas Street where a phrenologist, 'Professor Kelley’, was on hand to read sitters’ heads. Ness alone was at Little Quay Street, Rockhampton from March to April 1865. He returned to Rockhampton in 1868 and set up in East Street. He was still working there when he died of a 'disease of the brain’ on 31 January 1870. His studio and negatives were taken over by Charles Tonkin .
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
