Alec Bolton portrait collection [picture] / Alec Bolton
- Bib ID:
- 1585809
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Bolton, A. T., 1926-1996
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC P2192/1-364 LOC Album 933A-D copy
- Related Online Resources:
- List of captions
- Description:
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- [1972-1995]
- ca. 364 photographs : gelatin silver + ca. 1500 negatives, ca. 88 contact sheets.
- Summary:
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This collection of photographic portraits of Australian authors, novelists and poets taken mostly in the 1980s and early 1990s. The collection is based on approx. 1500 negatives, most of which have contact prints. Only approx. 275 negatives have prints, some of these have 2 or more prints. A small number of prints and contact prints do not have original negatives.
- Biography/History:
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Alec Bolton ran the Brindabella Press from 1973-1996 (it was known as the Officina Brindabella from 1985-1992). He also took photographic portraits; interviewed people for the Oral History section of the National Library; and was also an appraiser and valuer for the Manuscripts section. From 1971 to 1987 he was Director of Publications at the National Library. His wife Rosemary Dobson is a poet.
- Notes:
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- Title from accession record.
- The prints and contact sheets are in four albums, in alphabetical order of subject, with accession numbers for both contact sheets and prints, but not duplicate prints. The negatives are stored in a box, arranged in the same order, and marked with the corresponding accession numbers.
- PIC P2192/1-364 LOC Album 933A-D copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-133503363
- Has Sub-series:
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- Has subcollection: Brindabella Press publications
- Has subcollection: Collection of portraits of Bruce and Brenda Beaver, 1983
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Alec Bolton, Yvonne Boyd, Arthur Boyd, Penelope Hope, and Professor Alec Hope at Bundanon, 1978
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Barry Andrews, Joy Hooton, W.H. Wyld, 1986
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Beatrice Davis, Folly Point, Cammeray, New South Wales, 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Blanche D'Alpuget, 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Clem and Nina Christesen, 1983
- Has subcollection: Portrait of Don Charlwood, Templestowe, Victoria, October 1986
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Glenda Adams, 1990
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Jessica Anderson, 1986
- Has subcollection: Portraits of John Blight, 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Margaret Barbalet
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Marjorie Barnard, Point Clare, New South Wales, 1983
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Professor Manning Clark and his wife Dymphna, Forrest A.C.T., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Thea Astley, 1987
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Vincent Buckley, 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Bob Brissenden, 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Bruce Dawe, Toowoomba, Qld., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of David Campbell, Kevin Hart, Rhyll McMaster, Rosemary Dobson, and Roger McDonald, with Rhyll and Roger's daughters, Deakin, A.C.T., ca. 1975
- Has subcollection: Portraits of John Mill Couper, 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Rosemary Bolton, 1986
- Has subcollection: Photographs of Rosemary Bolton sitting for sculptor Arthur Stokes, Mount Eliza, Vic., 1987
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Penelope Hope, 1983
- Has subcollection: Portraits of A.D. Hope, 1983
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Christopher Koch, Turramurra, N.S.W., 1986
- Has subcollection: Portraits of David Ireland, Manly, N.S.W., 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Donald Horne, Woollahra, N.S.W., 1987
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Dorothy Green, Campbell, A.C.T., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Dorothy Hewett, Darlinghurst, N.S.W., 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Elizabeth Harrower, Mosman, N.S.W., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Portraits of Gwen Harwood, West Hobart, Tasmania, 1988
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Helen Garner, Carlton, Vic., 1988
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Nancy Keesing, Hunters Hill, N.S.W., 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Robert D. and Marjorie Fitzgerald, 1983
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Rodney Hall, Bermagui South, N.S.W., 1990
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Sir Keith Hancock, Campbell, A.C.T., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Thomas and Judy Keneally, 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Antigone Kefala, Annandale, N.S.W., 1987
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Beverley Farmer, Carlton, Vic., 1986
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Robert D. FitzGerald, Marjorie FitzGerald, Rosemary Bolton and Douglas Stewart, ca. 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Barrett Reid, Templestowe, Vic., 1986
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Betty Roland, Sydney, 1992
- Has subcollection: Portraits of David Malouf, Manly, N.S.W., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of David and Richenda Martin, Beechworth, Vic., 1983
- Has subcollection: Portraits of David Rowbotham, Brisbane, 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Elizabeth Riddell, Bondi, N.S.W., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Elyne Mitchell, Towong Hill, Vic., 1994
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Frank Moorhouse, Balmain, N.S.W., 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Geoff Page, Curtin, A.C.T., 1987
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Geoffrey Lehmann, Lindfield, N.S.W., 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Jack Lindsay, Cambridge, England, 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Joan Phipson, Mandurama, N.S.W., 1985-1991
- Has subcollection: Portraits of John Morrison, Ripponlea, Vic., 1986
- Has subcollection: Portraits of John Rowland, Deakin, A.C.T., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Les Murray, Chatswood, N.S.W., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Nancy Phelan, Lawson, A.C.T., 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Olaf and Madeline Ruhen, Mosman, N.S.W., 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Peter Porter, London, 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Philip Roberts, Mosman, N.S.W., 1972
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Stephen Murray-Smith, Mount Eliza, Vic., 1986
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Vera Newsom, Balmain, N.S.W., 1993
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Alan Wearne, Hobart, 1988
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Bernard Smith, Fitzroy, Vic., 19877
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Dal Stivens, Lindfield, N.S.W., 1984
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Douglas Stewart, 1983
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Fay Zwicky, Canberra, 1986
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Gavin Souter, Yarralumla, A.C.T., 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Ian Sharpe and Philip Mead, 1983
- Has subcollection: Portraits of John Tranter, Stanmore, N.S.W., 1990
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Judith Wright, Denise Levertov, and Rosemary Bolton, Mongarlowe, N.S.W., 1981
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Judith Wright, Mongarlowe, N.S.W., 1981
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Kylie Tennant, Shipley, N.S.W., 1983
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Peter Skrzynecki, Eastwood, N.S.W., 1991
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Randolph Stow, Essex, England, 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Rod Shaw and Dick Edwards, Sydney, 1972
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Sam Ure Smith, ca. 1985
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Thomas Shapcott with Judith Rodriguez at the Goethe Reading, Canberra, 1984-1987
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Walter Stone, 1973-1980
- Has subcollection: Portraits of Patrick White, Centennial Park, N.S.W., 1983-1984
- Has subcollection: Sir Harold White's house and garden, Red Hill, A.C.T., 1989
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Lists by accession number and by album/alphabetical order are available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Authors
- Terms of Use:
- Copyright restrictions may apply.
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This collection contains 101 records. - Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2066 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Photograph
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1996
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1995
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