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Samuel John Hood, aka Sam Hood
Posted on 28th November 2023By Lyn Collingwood, Bulletin 10/2023, December Commercial photographer and photojournalist Sam Hood lived at various addresses in Glebe and the suburb featured in many of his iconic images of everyday life. Although photography moved from wet to dry plate to film, and illumination from sunlight to flash powder to flashlight bulbs during his long career, […]
James Francis (Frank) Hurley
Posted on 6th April 2013Frank Hurley, who was born in Glebe in 1885, is best known today as a photographer and filmmaker who worked in the Antarctic with Mawson and Shackleton, was official photographer during the two world wars, and made expeditions to Papua during the 1920s. The :‘synchronized lecture entertainments’ that Hurley put on in the 1910s and 1920s were stage and screen performances exploiting a number of media.
