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Heather George
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Heather George (1907 - 1983) was a commercial photographer known for her industrial, fashion and outback photography.
==Early life==
Heather George was born on April 29, 1907 in Gordon, New South Wales. Her father was Wesley T. George and her mother was Helen M. George. Heather studied painting at the East Sydney Art School, and with the artist [[Justus Jorgensen|Justus Jorgenson]].<ref></ref>
==Photographer==
By 1938, at the age of 31, she had taken up photography professionally and worked at the Noel Rubie's
(1901 – 1976) portrait and industrial photography studio in Sydney. A wistful portrait of George taken by Rubie, who was an actor and artist as well as a photographer, appears full-page in a 1938 issue of the The Home : an Australian quarterly<ref>The Home : an Australian quarterly. Vol. 19 No. 7 (1 July 1938) Sydney : Art in Australia, 1920-1942</ref> over the caption "Miss Heather George, of Artarmon, is a youthful Sydney artist who has lately abandoned painting for photography." She later practiced at a variety of Melbourne and Victorian country photography studios.
By the late 1950s George had become a freelance photographer and photojournalist,<ref></ref> photographing Sydney's older suburbs Woolloomooloo<ref></ref> and Hunters Hill<ref></ref> She moved to Victoria and recorded the building of the King Street Bridge,<ref></ref><ref></ref> the watch-tower of Melbourne's fire station,<ref></ref> and the demolition of the Eastern Markets, and travelled the Australian outback photographing indigenous subjects, including the Wailbri people whom she described as among Australia's "most hardy and interesting aborigines",<ref></ref> and others on Aboriginal reserves<ref></ref> and cattle stations.
George's photographs appeared in magazines including Walkabout, Australian Scene, Hoofs and Horns, Pix, Women's Day, as well as the National Trust magazine.
George discontinued her work as a photojournalist in the late 1960s. She died in 1983.
==Collections==
National Gallery of Victoria<ref>https://ift.tt/36yGtOS>
==References==
==Early life==
Heather George was born on April 29, 1907 in Gordon, New South Wales. Her father was Wesley T. George and her mother was Helen M. George. Heather studied painting at the East Sydney Art School, and with the artist [[Justus Jorgensen|Justus Jorgenson]].<ref></ref>
==Photographer==
By 1938, at the age of 31, she had taken up photography professionally and worked at the Noel Rubie's
(1901 – 1976) portrait and industrial photography studio in Sydney. A wistful portrait of George taken by Rubie, who was an actor and artist as well as a photographer, appears full-page in a 1938 issue of the The Home : an Australian quarterly<ref>The Home : an Australian quarterly. Vol. 19 No. 7 (1 July 1938) Sydney : Art in Australia, 1920-1942</ref> over the caption "Miss Heather George, of Artarmon, is a youthful Sydney artist who has lately abandoned painting for photography." She later practiced at a variety of Melbourne and Victorian country photography studios.
By the late 1950s George had become a freelance photographer and photojournalist,<ref></ref> photographing Sydney's older suburbs Woolloomooloo<ref></ref> and Hunters Hill<ref></ref> She moved to Victoria and recorded the building of the King Street Bridge,<ref></ref><ref></ref> the watch-tower of Melbourne's fire station,<ref></ref> and the demolition of the Eastern Markets, and travelled the Australian outback photographing indigenous subjects, including the Wailbri people whom she described as among Australia's "most hardy and interesting aborigines",<ref></ref> and others on Aboriginal reserves<ref></ref> and cattle stations.
George's photographs appeared in magazines including Walkabout, Australian Scene, Hoofs and Horns, Pix, Women's Day, as well as the National Trust magazine.
George discontinued her work as a photojournalist in the late 1960s. She died in 1983.
==Collections==
National Gallery of Victoria<ref>https://ift.tt/36yGtOS>
==References==
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