Melvin Vaniman b. 30 December 1866

Also known as Chester Melvin Vaniman
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Photographer)
Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912) was an opera singer, photographer, and aviator and is now best known for his panoramic photos of Sydney.

Citations

  • Stitchbury, P.W. (1989), 'Melvin Vaniman, c1870-1912 : engineer, opera singer, inventor, agricultural expert, photographer, traveller, aviator, adventurer’, P. Stitchbury, Palmerston North, N.Z., 9pp.

  • Davies, Alan (2001), 'A different perspective : Vaniman, the acrobatic photographer’, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Curated by Alan Davies with the help of Alan Tierney.

  • Sassoon, Joanna (2001), '[Review of Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912) by Alan Tierney]’, Limina, A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 7, 2001, pp.151-2, Sassoon wrote that “This short book provides much well referenced, researched and indexed detail on the life, work and holdings of Vaniman’s Australian panoramas.”.

  • 'State Library of NSW, Sydney, NSW’.

  • 'Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912), Alan Tierney’s Research Letters, 1996-2006, SLNSW’, Alan Tierney donated to Mitchell Library 54 research letters which had provided a very helpful contribution to the writing of his Vaniman booklet. He also donated copies of Vaniman’s copyright registration applications. See also Tierney’s Dating of Photographs and other Fine Arts, Copyright Registration Records in Australia up to 1968 as a Research Resource, Goulburn 2003, which includes a case study on Vaniman’s copyright applications.

  • Davies, Alan (2009), 'Vaniman Panorama’, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, the catalogue states: “This exhibition draws on research by the Library’s Curator of Photographs, Alan Davies, which was greatly assisted by the work of Alan Tierney.”.

  • (5 July 2001), 'Revealed, Sydney’s lost photographs’, Daily Telegraph, p. 1, Commencing with the publication of two Vaniman photographs on the front page of the Daily Telegraph on 5 July 2001, a total of 21 photos were published over a seven day period to herald the start of the State Library’s exhibition. Daily Telegraph, seven articles, 5-13 July 2001.

  • Tierney, Alan (2000), 'Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912), a biographical note’, Alan Tierney, Goulburn, Australia.

  • Tyrell, Ian (2000), '[Review of Melvin Vaniman (1866-1912) by Alan Tierney]’, Locality, UNSW Centre for Community History, University of New South Wales,11 (2), pp.38-39.

  • Tierney, Alan (2003), 'Dating of Photographs and other Fine Arts,Copyright Registration Records in Australia up to 1968 as a Research Resource’, Alan Tierney, Goulburn, NSW.

  • Schwartzkoff, Louise (17 June 2009), 'Oh, the towering feeling on the streets where we live’, The Sydney Morning Herald, p.3.