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European Images 1936
MORRIS, George J.
# 830
Sydney: Print Room Press, 1983. Folio, clamshell portfolio housing 20
photographs by Morris printed from the negatives, of images taken
in Europe just prior to the Second World War. Printed with the
authorisation of the artist’s widow. Edition limited to 20 sets, this one
of 5 artist’s proofs.
George Morris was born in Sydney and studied at East Sydney
Technical College. He operated an engraving business and in 1920
travelled overseas to further his knowledge of engraving and photoreproduction
processes, visiting England, Germany and America where
he spent time at the Eastman Kodak head office. In 1925 he became a
member of the Sydney Camera Circle and began exhibiting regularly
with the circle, as well as with the Photographic Society of New South
Wales. He established a commercial studio in the late 1920s and later
became a partner in Ramsay Photo Works. He again visited Europe in
1936. (AGNSW website).
Morris’s works are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Monash
Gallery of Art and the AGNSW. His works in this set present an
accomplished insight into 1930s Europe through the eyes of a Sydney
photographer.
$ 2,750
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