Spirit of
Endurance
- "They sent me, in my Buick car up to
Iron Knob near Port Augusta, S.A. There I saw and felt the impulse of the Great
Inland Central Australia. The mysterious Flingers Range dominated the skyline.
This strange attraction "once seen never forgotten" brought me on several other
overland motor trips up through these ranges in the years before the Second
World War".
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- Harold Cazneaux, letter to Jack Cato, 9
March 1951
NLA MS 5416
A new world of photographic
possibilities opened for Cazneaux. He was both a friend and admirer or the
painter Hans Heysen, whom he had photographed in 1935. Heysens paintings
were praised by some contemporary critics as quintessentially Australian; a
reflection of a national character. Cazneaux, moved by the grandeur and beauty
of the Australian landscape with its constantly changing light, wished to share
the painters vision. The result, Spirit of Endurance (1937), a
majestic Australian gum, photographed at Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges,
South Australia, became one of Cazneauxs most enduring images. (The tree
survives and is now refereed to as "The Cazneaux Tree".)
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Spirit
of Endurance 1937 Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges, SA.
Gelatin silver photograph (Kodura Etching Brown) 28.5 x 34.1 (NLA Accession
# C27-1) nla.pic-an2384497 |
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Poplars,
Tumut c. 1930 NSW. Bromoil 34.5 x 23 (NLA Accession #
C30-9) nla.pic-an2384523 |
Late
Harvesting aka The Last Load c. 1920. Composite bromoil,
reversed 21.1 x 32.9 (NLA Accession # C30-6) nla.pic-an2384520 |
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The
Veil 1915 Blue Mountains, NSW. Bromoil 26.9 x 16.6 (NLA
Accession # C28-12) nla.pic-an2384476 |
Australian Stock Route c. 1925 near Crookwell, NSW.
Gelatin silver photograph 27.1 x 34.4 (NLA Accession # C28-7) nla.pic-an2384470 |
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Shadow
Play c. 1919. Bromoil 19.5 x 26.4 (NLA Accession #
C29-2) nla.pic-an2384483 |
The
Sapling Family c. 1920, Thirroul, NSW. Gelatin silver
photograph 35 x 26.8 (NLA Accession # C31-14) nla.pic-an2384546 |
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Distant
Ranges in the Flinders aka Wilpena Heights, South Australia
1937. Bromoil 15.6 x 25.3 (NLA Accession # C27-15) nla.pic-an2384513 |
Old
South Road, near Mittagong c. 1912, NSW. Bromoil 33 x 27.8
(NLA Accession # C29-7) nla.pic-an2384489 |
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The
Valley By the Sea 1937 Second Valley, SA. Bromoil 23.1 x
33.3 (NLA Accession # C31-2) nla.pic-an2384533 |
Winter
Sunlight aka Morning Sunlight 1907 Berrys Bay,
Sydney. Gelatin silver photograph 26.8 x 35.8 (NLA Accession #
C29-3) nla.pic-an2384484 |
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