Harold Cazneaux
(1878 - 1953)
THE RAZZLE DAZZLE, 1910
silver gelatin photograph
18.5 x 22.5 cm (sight)
45.5 x 48.0 cm (frame)
signed verso: Harold Cazneaux
bears inscription verso: Vintage print (the razzle dazzle) / Bondi 1910 Harold Cazneaux / signed on back of photo
Estimate:
$2,500 - $3,500
Sold:
$2,455 (inc. BP)
lot details
45.5 x 48.0 cm (frame)
bears inscription verso: Vintage print (the razzle dazzle) / Bondi 1910 Harold Cazneaux / signed on back of photo
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Project 7 – Harold Cazneaux: 1878 – 1953, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 August – 28 September 1975, cat. 2 (another example)
Australian Pictorial Photography, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 12 June – 8 July 1979, and touring (another example)
Harold Cazneaux, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 December 1989 – 11 March 1990 (another example)
Fine and mostly sunny: photographs from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 September – 1 December 1991, cat. 17 (another example)
Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 September – 17 November 2002 (another example)
Harold Cazneaux: artist in photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 June – 10 August 2008 (another example)
SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014
Literature
Snowden Ward, H. (ed.), Photograms of the Year, London, 1911, pp. 54 – 56 (illus., another example)
Geeves, P. and Newton, G., Cazneaux’s Sydney 1904-1934, Sydney, 1980, pl. 39, pp. 38, 39 (illus., another example)
Newton, G., Silver and Grey – Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900-1950, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1980, pl. 22 (illus., another example)
Willis, A., Picturing Australia – A History of Photography, Sydney, 1988, pl. 83, p. 139 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the AGNSW, NGV, and the NLA.

