Olympic Games, Melbourne, Victoria 1956 [picture] / Bruce Howard
- Bib ID:
- 4278496
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Howard, Bruce, 1936-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1956
- 353 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. with some variation.
- Summary:
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Bruce Howard's photographs of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics include iconic images such as Ron Clarke lighting the Olympic Flame and Shirley Strickland winning the women's 800 metres hurdles final. The collection also includes portraits of Betty Cuthbert, Marlene Mathews, Dawn Fraser and many other competitors who became household names ; photographs of the events, particularly those in which Australians won medals, the athletes' villages and dignitaries. As well as recording the eminent, Howard depicted the impact of the Games on ordinary Australians showing crowds of spectators lining the streets dressed in their Sunday best, decorations in the city, parades and school groups. The influence of the Games on rural communities is also recorded in photographs of spectators in the bush watching the cross-country runners or the progress of the Olympic Flame. The photographs are revealing of aspects of post-war life in Australia - the costume, new-found affluence and then techology--Taken from acquisition documentation.
- Biography/History:
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"Bruce Howard was a press photographer for the Herald and Weekly Times and had unrivalled access to the ceremonies, events and competitors"--Acquisition documentation.
- Notes:
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- A selection of the photographs were published in Bruce Howard's 15 days in '56 : the first Australian Olympics.
- Title from acquisition documentation, see file NLA 06/791.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147836852
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Bruce Howard, 2007.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Herald and Weekly Times
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- Copyright restrictions may apply.
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1956
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