Inge Schön by Trude Fleischmann

**Trude Fleischmann** (1895-1990) ~ Portrait of artist Inge Schön, ca. 1929, silver gelatin print, signed. | src Sworders

3 Viennese dancers (1929)

Three Viennese dancers. Hansi Koch, Loli Petri and Frauke Lauterbach. Cover photo: Die Bühne # 242, June 1929 | src ÖNB

Titelbild / Die Bühne, Heft 242, Juni 1929 : Drei Tanzende Wienerinnen. Hansi Koch, Loli Petri und Frauke Lauterbach, alle aus der Bodenwieser-Klasse. Sie tanzen einen der modernen Ausdrucks- und Bewegungs-tänze. Foto: Feldscharek

Ophelia by Rosemarie Clausen

**Rosemarie Clausen** (1907-1990) ~ Tänzerin Natascha Trofimowa (als Ophelia im Hamlet-Ballett), um 1951 | src Schneider-Henn
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Verso Studiostempel, auf kartonierte Unterlage geheftet, dort signiert, verso Studiostempel wiederholt, handschriftlich bezeichnet: »…tanzte die ›Ophelia‹ im Hamlet-Ballett Staatsoper Hamburg, Regie Helga Swedlund« (quoted from pdf / page 101)

Nudes by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss M. Whitehead, ca. 1910 – ca. 1930. Glass negative | src SLV
Whole-length, nude, bending over to touch a shell on the ground (description on State Library of Victoria)

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss Wynn Jones, ca. 1910 – ca. 1930. Glass negative | src SLV ~ State library of Victoria

Girl with Chinese paper lamp

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Young girl holding a Chinese paper lantern, wearing a hat] (1910-1930) [detail]

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Young girl holding a Chinese paper lantern, wearing a hat] 1910-1930. Glass lantern slide | src SLV

Florence Lee · card reader

Florence Lee [ca. 1910-1915] Glass negative. Bain News Service, publisher. | src Library of Congress

Lady Constance Stewart Richardson

Black cat by Hiroaki (1929)

**Takahashi Hiroaki** (1871–1945) ~ Cat with a Bell, 1929. Color woodblock print on paper. Publisher: Kaneko Fusui (1897-1978)

Takahashi Hiroaki was the first print designer to collaborate with the publisher Watanabe Shôzaburô to revive the themes and techniques of 19th-century ukiyo-e prints. Between 1907 and 1923, when the Great Kantô Earthquake destroyed both prints and blocks, they produced over 500 designs. After the quake, Hiroaki began anew, sometimes creating modified versions of his earlier designs. This work, however, is from his output for a different publisher, Kaneko Fusui, who apparently allowed him to do more experimental designs. The swirling patterns in the background, done in soft yellow-orange, show the movement of the baren pad during the printing process. Takahashi worked with Kaneko for only four years, between 1929 and 1932, so prints from this publisher are relatively rare. (quoted from Portland Art Museum)

**Takahashi Hiroaki** (1871–1945) ~ Cat with a Bell, 1929. Color woodblock print on paper. | src Portland Art museum

Dancers (1914) by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick ~** [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Four girls dancing, wearing Grecian costume) | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

**Ruth Hollick ~** [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Four girls weeping, wearing Grecian costumes) Glass negative | src SLV

**Ruth Hollick ~** [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Three girls, wearing Grecian costume, with pan pipes) | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

Thought by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Thought, 1921 | src National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Image ID: De102079

Thought is a portrait of the artist’s niece in a distinctly Australian costume adorned with appliqued gum leaves and a gum nut belt. The sitter is pictured in a meditative pose and the evocative title of the photograph encourages an allegorical interpretation of the work. The photograph is an exhibition-size print in its original frame. Hollick entered ‘Thought’ in the Colonial Exhibition in London in 1921 and was awarded a bronze medal. src NGV

Ruth Hollick (1883-1977) ~ Thought, 1921 | src NGV (detail)

The exhibition Photography: Real and Imagined (2023-2024) examines two perspectives on photography; photography grounded in the real world, as a record, a document, a reflection of the world around us; and photography as the product of imagination, storytelling and illusion. On occasion, photography operates in both realms of the real and the imagined.

Highlighting major photographic works from the NGV Collection, including recent acquisitions on display for the very first time, Photography: Real and Imagined examines the complex, engaging and sometimes contradictory nature, of all things photographic. The NGV’s largest survey of the photography collection, the exhibition includes more than 300 works by Australian and international photographers and artists working with photo-media from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. / The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia