Alfred Hazelton

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer and schoolteacher, Hazelton practiced in Queensland in the mid 1850s. A photographer by the same name later practiced in Sydney and may be the same man.
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professional photographer and schoolteacher, taught at the Anglican school in Nicholas Street, Ipswich, Queensland, from about 1850. The young Thomas Mathewson studied there in 1854. Hazelton’s interest in photography was indicated in May 1855 by his opening A Grand Cosmoramic View of the Great Exhibition of London at the back of the schoolhouse. Having received photographic equipment from England by December, he advertised his intention of taking portraits and apparently practiced professionally for about two months. The enterprise seems to have lapsed by mid 1856, perhaps because of the impending birth of his son, and Hazelton continued to teach at the Ipswich schoolhouse.

Perhaps his photographic career revived when family commitments lessened. A Sydney photographer called Alfred Hazelton was operating a studio in Duke Street in 1864 and at 202 Campbell Street in 1867, then was listed in the Sydney Directory for 1870 as a practising 'artist’.

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Fisher, Rod
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900', Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Barrie, S. (1988), 'Queenslanders behind the Camera 3', Morningside, Qld.>, <ExternalResource: (1856), North Australian.>]