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A rest on the road

from Powerhouse Museum

  • 8 older comments, and then…
  • Jeffrey Oates said:
    another that captures the Tom Roberts art style,
  • Craig Heath said:
    I'm struck by the narrow depth of field in this image, and it seems the photographer must have tilted the lens to get both the eyes and the front foot in focus. Is it known what (type of) camera was used? Was the use of lens tilt common then?
  • Ian Sanderson said:
    strobie42 I suspect a posed shot in front of a backdrop.
  • Shoky Bsbs said:
    wonderful amazing portrait
  • cqgloomsunday said:
    Great work

Billy Wood (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Joe said:
    The Internet provides a few tantalizing hints to who Billy Wood may have been. He may have been the British wrestler William Wood, who won the silver medal in the lightweight (up to 66kgs) division of the freestyle wrestling competition at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Link: Wikipedia article on 1908 Olympic wrestling. Or maybe he was the Billy Wood who was Britain's middleweight wrestling champion in 1909 (middleweight being at least 76kgs, he'd have had to pack on quite a bit of weight in a year if William and Billy were the same guy.) Link: Google html cache of a big .pdf, with suitable highlighting. Or (and?) was he perhaps W. (Billy) Wood, styled "Welterweight Champion of the World" in a book about wrestling published by W. Foulsham & Co. of London sometime around the 1930s? The book, with text by E.J. Harrison, features posed photos of W. Wood and C. Law, illustrating wrestling holds. This book shows up for sale on the Internet in various editions. Link probably soon to die: A recent ebay UK offering of the book.

A Swagman

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • BobMeade said:
    That's a great photo. Seems like there has been a bit of retouching to the swag, billy and trouser legs to make them more defined, but I'd be interested in an expert opinion. Good to compare with "On the wallaby track" from the Tyrrell Collection here: www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2363534490/ ADDED: Oh, I see now through at the persistent URL, that these were glass slides for display at an exhibition, so it is understandable that some features were retouched to give more definition on the big screen. Maybe some of the trees in the background have been blurred in processing too.
  • williewonker said:
    Very impressive portrait.
  • BobMeade said:
    Compare him to this photgraph of Ninely and Nine: www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3084038737/
  • pellethepoet said:
    BobMeade - the whole photo has been touched up extensively, but the eyes most strikingly of all. In the original only the whites of his eyes are visible and it gives the image a powerful aspect. The State Library have the original, but only digitised in low definition. A sharper version can be seen reproduced on p. 78 of Gaslight Sydney by Louise Johnson (Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1984). The State Library further define the location as Walbundry Station.
  • BobMeade said:
    Thank you pellethepoet.