A proud achievement

Tom H. Stoward
Australia
1874 – 1941

A proud achievement
c.1905
carbon photograph
Place made
Adelaide
Medium
carbon photograph
Dimensions
29.1 x 20.8 cm (image)
30.1 x 21.5 cm (sheet)
40.2 x 30.5 cm (cardboard mount)
Credit line
South Australian Government Grant 1991
Accession number
917Ph25
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated.
Media category
Photograph
Collection area
Australian photographs

  • WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016

     

    In the late 1890s and early twentieth century Adelaide led the nation in fostering pictorialism as a new ’artistic’ photographic style. Tom Stoward was one of the numerous amateur photographers attracted to this style, exhibiting regularly with all of the leading Adelaide photographic societies.

     

    Friends and family members were often models for his narrative photographs, such as this one, where his daughter Phyllis is the young girl blowing bubbles. It was exhibited in the 1905 exhibition of the South Australian Photographic Society.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

     

  • SA Photographic Society 1905 Exhibition, 1905

  • Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016