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In a New Light includes photographs of men and women whose names
and contributions to Australia are well known, and whose images
were widely circulated—among them the formidable looking Premier
of New South Wales Henry Parkes, and opera singer Dame Nellie Melba,
surely one of the first superstars. Another subject, Sydney dentist
Mr W.E. Hart, was the first Australian to be granted a pilot’s
licence.
Other individuals gained their reputation by less glamorous means.
Mr Jennings, for example, was reputed to be the fattest man in the
colony of New South Wales in 1885 and was the subject of much curiosity.
The exhibition also deals with aspects of workers’ history
and dissent, with images of marches, strikes and also of the impoverished
living conditions experienced by some Australians, especially those
in rural areas.
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