Alice Green b. 1909

  • Artist (Photographer)
Although she abandoned her early photographic pursuits after she married, Alice enjoyed photographing her brother and a friend with her first camera in her early teens.
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photographer, the eldest of three children, was born at Burnt Yards (NSW) in 1909. Her father, John, was manager then owner of a sheep and wheat property. When she left Walli Public School in March 1922 at the age of thirteen, Alice was presented with a Box Brownie camera. Films were sent by post to Kodak in Sydney until she purchased her own equipment for developing. The few known extant examples of her work (1926-31) are of her brother, Eric, and Bob Costello, a labourer employed by John Green.

Alice married Allen Roy McGregor, a BHP prospector at Junction Reef Goldmine, in the Church of England at Mandurama on 9 June 1934. They moved to Newcastle and had a son, Malcolm, in 1938. Alice did not pursue her early interest in photography. She died in July 1994.

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Goodhew, Vanessa
Date written:
1995
Last updated:
2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni (1986), 'Australian Women Photographers 1840-1960', Richmond, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Isaacs, Jennifer (1990), 'Pioneer Women of the Bush and Outback', Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: (9 September 1993), 'Interview with Alice McGregor', Sydney, New South Wales.>]