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West, Frederick Temple
Photographer and marine artist, had a photographic studio in Newcastle from 1895 to 1901. He employed artists including Reginald Borstel and Alfred Dufty to do ...
West, John
Professional photographer and publican. West worked in Sydney in 1868.
Wheeler, Joseph
Professional photographer working in Castlemaine, Victoria between 1860 and 1867.
Wherrett, Charles, b. 1832
Professional portrait and landscape photographer working primarily in Hobart, Tasmania. He also worked in Castlemaine and Bendigo, Victoria.
White, Frances Mary Fletcher, b. 1882
Photographer and woodcarver from the Hunter Valley, NSW, who designed and carved panels to be incorporated into pieces of furniture.
White, James Oliver
Professional photographer working in NSW in the 1860s went to Roma, Queensland in 1868 to set up a studio.
Whitesides, Vera Lindsay, b. 1886
Described as a women of charm, Vera was a versatile artist proficient in a wide range of art and craft media. Best known in her ...
Wilder, Joseph Warrin
Male colonial Queensland pioneer tabloid photographer who had a knack for shooting murderers before they had committed their crimes, and a habit of selling copies ...
Wilkinson, Charles
Colonial geologist whose pioneer use of photography to illustrate Victorian rocks may have inspired his son to become a geologist too.
Willett, George, b. 1841
Colonial male photographer who named his studio the Royal Photographic Temple of Light after shooting two princes on tour.
Williams, Eleanor
Photographer, is the Canberra-based widow of the Aboriginal writer and activist Kelvin Gilbert. She illustrated his books Child's dreaming (1992), Black from the edge (1994) ...
Williams, Frank, b. 1834
Good-looking travelling male in colonial Victoria who may have been more thief than photographer since there are more records of him stealing photographic equipment than ...
Williams, Henry
Colonial male oil painter, watercolourist and photographer from Hobart Town who painted children and hunters.
Williams, Pamela Tjanara, b. 1958
Photographer of the Goreng Goreng/Waka Waka peoples of Queensland. Pamela Williams became politically active in the Land Rights movement during the 1980s and in 1985 ...
Williams, Thomas S.
Male colonial photographer with numerous businesses who made xylographs popular before a fire burnt down his Collins Street studio in Melbourne.
Williams, John, b. 1933
Williams was a self-taught photographer with an active career beginning in the 1960s. He travelled in Europe through the late 1960s returning to Australia in ...
Williamson, C. A. H., b. 1807
Colonial male photographer whose diverse practice of producing wet-plate albumen prints, ambrotypes, alabastrine portraits and daguerreotypes seems to have existed for only two years before ...
Wilmot, George C.
Professional photographer, ran a Portrait Gallery at 31 Malop Street, West Geelong, Victoria, in 1865-86 in partnership with Key. Wilmot & Key photographed 'King Jerry, ...
Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Wilson, James, b. 1827
James Glen Wilson was a landscape painter, naval photographer and surveyor. Irish born, Wilson was chosen to accompany the expedition to the South Seas. This ...