Harold Cazneaux b. 1878

Also known as:
  • Harold Cazneau
  • Caz
  • Artist (Photographer)
Influential 'pictorialist' photographer who worked in Sydney. Cazneaux was the son of photographers Pierce Mott Cazneau and Emily Cazneau.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Harold Cazneaux
Also known as:
  • Harold Cazneau
  • Caz
Birth date
1878
Death date
19 June 1954
Death place
Sydney, NSW
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • Roseville, Sydney, NSW
Arrival
  • c.1885
Cultural Heritage
  • New Zealander
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

photographer, Sydney, son of photographers Pierce Mott Cazneau and Emily Cazneau née Bentley .

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
child of
Pierce Mott Cazneau
1849
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Jack Cato
1889
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Pierce Mott Cazneau
1849
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Emily Florence Bentley
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)
grandparent of
Dick Smith
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
née Bentley Emily Cazneau
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Leslie H. Beer
1882
Artist (Photographer)
child of
Emily Florence Bentley
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)
child of
Pierce Mott Cazneau
1849
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Pat Holmes
1915
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Marjory Francesca McCrae
1905
Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Hera Roberts
1892
Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
G. Gayfield Shaw
1885
Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Roy de Maistre
1894
Artist (Painter)
None
Courtesy of: Historic Houses Trust
Palmer Street Church, Woolloomooloo, around 1908
Date
c.1908
Citations:
  • Cato, Jack, (1955), The story of the camera in Australia, (Place: Melbourne, Vic : Georgian House (facsimile Institute of Australian Photography, 1977))
  • Newton, Gael; and Ennis, Helen; & Long, Chris; with Crombie, Isobel; & Davidson, Kate, (1988), Shades of light : photography and Australia 1839-1988, (Place: Canberra : Australian National Gallery : Collins Australia)
  • (1992), Cazneau, Pierce Mott (1849 1928), (Place: in Kerr, Joan (ed.), Dictionary of Australian Artists)