パワーハウスミュージアムのインスタグラム(powerhousemuseum) - 5月30日 15時19分

Today's #PhotoOfTheDay is a positive from a photographic negative of the G.P.O. Sydney from Moore Street (Later absorbed into Martin Place), taken by the Sydney based photographer Henry King. It is part of a collection of over 1300 glass plates taken between 1880 and 1917, although most appear to have been made in the late 1880s and 1890s.

King was one of the Colony's most significant early photographers and although born in England around 1855 grew up in Sydney. He found work with the well-known Sydney photographer J. Hubert Newman and in 1880 established a studio in partnership with William Slade. Four years later he was sole proprietor.

King quickly established a reputation for himself due to the high quality of his finished work. While King's income, like many other photographers, was dependent on portraiture he, like Kerry, is best known for his outdoor work. These views, particularly his city views, are justifiably praised and seem more carefully framed and printed than Kerry's. Outdoor views of Sydney make up the main bulk of King's work in the collection although, like Kerry, he took a series of photographs of the Jenolan Caves using magnesium flares.
Henry King died aged 68 in Waverley War Memorial Hospital on 22 May 1923 following abdominal surgery. #POTD #MAAScollection #TyrrellCollection #HenryKing #MartinPlace

Object statement
Glass plate negative, full plate, 'G.P.O. Sydney from Moore Street', Henry King, Sydney, Australia, c. 1880-1900

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