Olive Cotton interviewed by Helen Topliss [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1906818
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cotton, Olive, 1911-2003, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1994 Jul 9
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 71 min.) ; 90 min.
- Summary:
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Cotton talks about her decision to take up photography; working with Max Dupain; exhibitions of early works; teaching experiences at Frensham School, Mittagong and origins of work "Teacup ballet". She then talks about living and working in Cowra. Cotton then discusses the photographs that have been set out before her on a table and in some cases details the techniques involved. These include photographs of a skeleton leaf, three trees, Cherokee rose, her 2 children, fuzzy flowers, advertisement featuring ballerinas which was displayed as a photograhic mural, blossoms, skyline of Sydney with all the different advertising hoardings, deciduous trees, seed head, wind flowers, blossom trees, "Towering gum", "Eleanor Dark", "Young oarsman", quince blossoms, sheoaks near Newport Beach, "Drainpipes", agapanthus and "Darling Harbour". She then describes her current arrangements for her photographic work and her plans for an exhibition and book of her work.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on July 9, 1994 in Koorawatha, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Related Material:
- Papers of Olive Cotton; located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection MS Acc11.129.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Corrected transcript available (typescript, 24 leaves).
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 35 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Photographers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Topliss, Helen, 1946-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1994
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