Isidor Cohen

  • Artist (Photographer)
Professional photographer and resident of Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Isidor Cohen
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • c.1862- c.1872 Dight Street, Collingwood, Melbourne, Vic.
  • c.1859- c.1869 76 Smith Street, Collingwood, Melbourne, Vic.
Active Period
  • c.1859- c.1872
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

professional photographer, was a 'daguerrean and photographic artist’ at 76 Smith Street, Collingwood, according to the Melbourne Directory for 1859. He was probably a brother of Lawrence Cohen . Isidor Cohen, listed as 'artist’, was still working in 1871-72 when the celebrated painter Tom Roberts was briefly his studio assistant. Both Cohen and Roberts lived in Dight Street, Collingwood.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Tom Roberts
1856
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
sibling of
Lawrence Cohen
Artist (Painter)
attributed
associate of
Thomas Roberts
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
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