David Potts
(1926 - 2012)
RABBIT TRAPPER, DORRIGO, c.1947
silver gelatin photograph
45.0 x 35.5 cm (sight)
72.5 x 55.0 cm (frame)
signed lower right below image: David Potts
inscribed verso: 23
Estimate:
$3,000 - $5,000
Sold:
$5,891 (inc. BP)
lot details
72.5 x 55.0 cm (frame)
inscribed verso: 23
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney
Exhibited
The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002, cat. 23
Australian Postwar Photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 June – 8 August 2004 (another example)
Literature
Newton, G., Silver and Grey – Fifty Years of Australian Photography 1900-1950, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1980, pl. 95 (illus., another example)
Ennis, H., Photography and Australia, Reaktion Books Ltd, London, 2007, fig.53, p.98 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the AGNSW, NGA, AGSA, QAGOMA, and the NGV.