Series: Artists of the National Library of Australia

Petite, plucky and always immaculately dressed in the constraint of Victorian finery...throughout her life she was acclaimed internationally, winning 29 medals, and accolades from leading art critics. Her work was also collected by royalty, including Queen Victoria. - Patricia Fullerton, 2002 Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) was a painter, naturalist, writer and explorer. For almost 50 years, she travelled to remote parts...

Cazneaux's work is what matters, its place in the history of Australian photography and its influence on past, present and future generations of photographers. - Max Dupain, 1978 Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953) is widely considered the greatest Australian photographer of the early twentieth century. In portraiture, architectural and industrial photography, landscapes, and documentary work, he showed versatility, great imagination, and technical...

Olive Cotton is one of Australia's most respected photographers, with a career that spanned over six decades. In 1995, the National Library of Australia produced a volume collating over 60 works, from her earliest photographs taken with a box Brownie, her exhibition work in the 1930s, and examples of the commercial work from the Max Dupain Studio during the war....

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Wolfgang Sievers (1913-2007) fled Nazi Germany to make a new home in Australia. Through his striking images of the post-war manufacturing boom, he would go on to become one of the country's eminent photographers. Sievers' images celebrate the excitement of the modern machine age. The photographer documented the height of Australian industry,...