L. W. Appleby b. 1872

Also known as Leonard Whithair Appleby
  • Artist (Photographer)
Appleby was a New Zealand photographer who trained with Falk Studios in Sydney and in Newcastle before partnering with Emma Manning in the Christchurch studio of her late husband CH Manning. He exhibited bi-chromate prints with the NSW Society of Artists in 1907. Appleby's work is now in the collection of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
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Born in 1872 in New Zealand Leonard Whithair Appleby was established in The Strand Arcade Sydney by mid 1905 when critic A.G. Stephens devoted an article to him and made the clains that he 'seems to be first and chief among those who have attempted the new photography.Certainly no series of gum-portraits has been shown in Sydney to equal the set recently exhibited by him at the
Art Society’s rooms.’.Appleby and A.H. Adams exhibited bi-chromate prints with the Society of Artists in 1907.

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1999
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2022

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