George W. Priston

  • Artist (Photographer)
George W. Priston was a professional photographer and photographic dealer. From 1864 to 1866 he and Jabez W. Small published Photographic News of the Month. This magazine was considered to be Australia's first photographic magazine.
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professional photographer and photographic dealer, worked in partnership with Jabez W. Small in Melbourne. There from 1864 to 1866 Priston and Small published Photographic News of the Month , considered to be Australia’s first photographic magazine. They exhibited photographs, 'English and foreign, coloured and plain’, at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition in 1866-67. Priston seems to have had his own photographic studio in 1868-79; in 1871 his shop in Swanston Street acted as an agency for Charles Walter 's photographs.

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Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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