George Wills Priston b.

  • Artist (Photographer)
George Wills Priston was a professional photographer and chemist, whose business Priston and Small manufactured photographic chemicals and dealt in photographic goods between c. 1864 and 5 October 1867, when he and his partner, Thomas Stephen Small formally dissolved their company. From 1864 to 1866 he and Jabez William Small published Photographic News of the Month, considered to be Australia's first photographic magazine.

professional photographer and photographic dealer, worked in partnership with Jabez W. Small in Melbourne. There from 1864 to 1866 Priston and Small published Photographic News of the Month , considered to be Australia’s first photographic magazine. They exhibited photographs, 'English and foreign, coloured and plain’, at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition in 1866-67. Priston seems to have had his own photographic studio in 1868-79; in 1871 his shop in Swanston Street acted as an agency for Charles Walter 's photographs.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011