Nancy and Molly Wolffe
John Kauffmann
Australia
1864 – 1942
Nancy and Molly Wolffe
1907
brown toned gelatin-silver photograph
Australia
1864 – 1942
Nancy and Molly Wolffe
1907
brown toned gelatin-silver photograph
- Place made
- Adelaide
- Medium
- brown toned gelatin-silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 13.5 x 20.0 cm (sheet)
- Credit line
- South Australian Government Grant 1988
- Accession number
- 884Ph21
- Signature and date
- Signed and dated l.r., pen and ink "J KAUFFMANN/ 1907"
- Media category
- Photograph
- Collection area
- Australian photographs
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WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016
Kauffman was a pioneer of the pictorial photography movement in Australia. Known primarily for soft-focus atmospheric landscape photographs, he also created some naturalistic figure studies.
In this photograph the artist has captured an intimate scene of his nieces: Nancy and Molly were the daughters of his sister Emma, who also appeared in his photographs.
Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs
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Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography
Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016