Peter Dombrovskis archive of photographs [transparency] / Peter Dombrovskis
- Bib ID:
- 4594512
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Dombrovskis, Peter, 1945-1996
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item.
- Description:
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- 1960-1996
- 3,581 transparencies : col. ; 12.5 x 10 cm., or smaller + 2 slide shows.
- Summary:
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The Dombrovskis archive contains images of remote landscapes in Tasmania, Macquarie Island, Fraser Island and other areas in Australia and Sarawak.
- Biography/History:
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Peter Dombrovskis was born in Germany of Latvian parents in 1945 and emigrated to Australia in 1950. He died in 1996 while photographing in the Western Arthur Range in Tasmania. He began taking photographs in the 1960s and was influenced by the Lithuanian-Australian pioneer conservationist and photographer Olegas Truchanas.Through his publishing company West Wind Press he produced publications such as the annual Wilderness Calendar and a number of books, all with prefaces promoting the conservation cause. Through West Wind Press, Liz Dombrovskis continued to publish Peter's work after his death. In 2003 Dombrovskis was the first Australian photographer to be inducted in the International Photography Hall of Fame.
- Notes:
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- Title from acquisitions documentation, see file NLA06/1618.
- The Dombrovskis cataloguing number, the location of images and publication status has been transcribed into individual records from labels on the transparency sleeves. The sleeves have been discarded after rehousing the transparencies.
- Collection includes 86 slides used in Rivers Red (PIC/12677/3495/1-43), Rivers Green (PIC/12677/3496/1-43) slide show during the Franklin River conservation campaign. Slides have not been individually catalogued and are not digitised. Some of the slides are cropped versions of Peter Dombrovskis' images that have been catalogued and digitised; some of the slides are images that are attributed to Olegas Truchanas and Ralph Hope-Johnstone.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-148516339
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Liz Dombrovskis, 2009.
- Subject:
- Terms of Use:
- Copyright restrictions may apply.
- Related Records:
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This is a collection.
This collection contains 3,496 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:
- 1996
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
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