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A "manifesto" was drawn up by Cecil and signed by all six attendees who pledged "to work and to advance pictorial photography and to show our own
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Cecil was first apprenticed as an electrical fitter in the
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Just prior to his death from cancer, Bostock was instrumental in forming The
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Photograph : sepia toned ; 23.8 x 27.5 cm. J.E. Paton, W.H. Moffitt, D.R. Hill, W.S. White, E. Poole, G. Morris, H. Bedgood, H. Mallard, S. Eutrope, J.W. Metcalfe, C. Bostock, The Camera Circle, Sydney :National
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