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.
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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

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Related collections
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)