Walter barnett biography

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  • Walter Barnett, was an Australian photographer and filmmaker.
  • Henry Walter Barnett (), photographer, was born on 25 January at St Kilda, Victoria, son of Lewis Barnett, merchant, and his wife Alice.

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    professional photographer, was born in St Kilda, Melbourne on 25 January , one of the six children of English Jews Lewis Barnett (Eliezer ben Baruch) and Alice Jacobs. In , aged 13, he left school and joined Melbourne&#;s leading photographic studio Stewart & Co, where he met Tom Roberts when he joined the firm in Barnett claimed to have enabled robert to made his first ever sale of a painting (in ) and he han själv purchased Holiday Sketch at Coogee (, Art galleri of New South Wales) as soon as robert had painted it. He also bought Arthur Streeton 's The Three Liners, Circular Quay in (now National galleri of Australia).

    In Barnett moved to Hobart and set up his first commercial studio, jointly owned with Harold (Herbert?) Riise. After two years he sold out to Riise and travelled the world, working for leading photographers in San Francisco (I.W. Taber), Chicago (Joseph W. Gehrig), New York (various, perhaps including Falk whose name and logo he used in Sydney) and L

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    Henry Walter Barnett

    Henry Walter Barnett

    Barnett circa

    Born

    Henry Walter Barnett


    ()25 January

    St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

    Died16 January () (aged&#;71)

    Nice, France

    Other&#;namesH. Walter Barnett
    OccupationPhotographer

    Henry Walter Barnett (25 January – 16 January ), usually known as H. Walter Barnett, was an Australian photographer and filmmaker. Barnett was a prominent portrait photographer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, establishing the successful Falk studios in Sydney. Later in his career he was based in London, England, with studios at Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge. Barnett became involved in filmmaking after meeting cinematographer Marius Sestier in , and with Sestier made some of the first films shot in Australia.

    Life and career

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    Barnett was born on 25 January in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, one of seven children[1] of English-born Jewish parents Lewis[nb 1] Barnett, a merc

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    H. Walter Barnett

    H. Walter Barnett () was a leading portrait photographer of the late Victorian, Edwardian and interwar periods. Born in St Kilda, Barnett worked for Stewart and Co and briefly operated his own studio in Hobart before setting up Falk Studios in Sydney in Falk Studios became the leader in portraits of contemporary Australian stars of the stage and captured many celebrity visitors including Sarah Bernhardt, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain. In the s Barnett established a highly successful photographic studio in London, working for celebrities, artists, royalty and high society personalities. Barnett's close social relationship with fellow expatriate artists Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, Charles Conder and, significantly, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin provided the impetus for much of his photography and were crucial to the success of his studio. His works were widely admired for their beauty and artistic strength. The National Portrait Gallery mounted Legend