09. Ironwood tree illuminated by campfire |
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| Title : | 09. Ironwood tree illuminated by campfire |
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| Creator : | Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976, photographer | ||
| Source : | PRG 1218/34/186 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1935 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 60 x 60 mm | ||
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| Description : |
An ironwood tree photographed at night, illuminated by the light of a campfire, with TGH Strehlow sitting nearby, Erldunda Station, Central Australia. Mountford wrote in his diary, 'A tree which attracts the attention of all artists visiting Central Australia is the ironwood. It is graceful in form, with delicate pendulous foliage. A lucky exposure, made one night when the camp fire was burning brightly, enabled me [to take this] picture.' Mountford also featured this tree in his 1956 publication Australian Tree Portraits, writing, 'They are not seen at their best during the brightness of midday, but at night, when the camp-fire, lighting every leaf, twig and branch, makes then stand out in sharp contrast to the blackness of the desert night'. |
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| Related names : | Mountford, Charles P, (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976 |
| Coverage year : | 1935 |
| Period : | 1927-1939 |
| Place : | Central Australia |
| Region : | Northern Territory |
| Further reading : | Lamshed, Max, 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, [Adelaide] : Rigby, 1972 Mountford, Charles P., Australian Tree Portraits, [Victoria] ; Melbourne University Press, [1956] Mountford, Charles P., Manuscript diary, Journey to Ayers Rock, 1935, PRG 1218/5/3 Warden, James. 'T.G.H. Strehlow and the 1935 Board of Inquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines' in Traditions in the midst of change : communities, cultures and the Strehlow legacy in Central Australia : proceedings of the Strehlow Conference, Alice Springs 18-20 September 2002, Alice Springs, N.T. : Strehlow Research Centre, 2004, pp. 89-100 |
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