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Bernice Agar

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Anita Callaway writes that her style was characterised by "strong, dramatic cross lighting and theatrical, almost unnatural, poses". Barbara Hall and Jenni Mather note her "celebration of the two-dimensional with strong use of frontal lighting. The image is perceived as an arrangement of shapes: a
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covered an exhibition that was held of her work at the Bain Studios in Brisbane, and said, "It is doubtful if in Australia there is anything to come up to Miss Agar's work".
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In 1918 Agar established the Bernice Agar Studio in Sydney. Her portrait work was featured in leading magazines and newspapers of the period such as
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hat may be chosen for its geometrical line, the body framed for effect and the who image subtly etched with shadow".
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said "the leading camera men of this country breathed a sigh of relief" when she stopped her career.
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After her marriage to James W. Hardie, an accountant, she wound up her business on 5 February 1934.
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She began her career training as a photographer at the Bain Photographic studios in
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By 1917 Agar was already established as a prominent photographer.
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Bowen
Toowoomba
Portrait photograph taken in 1921 of British opera singer Clara Butt, by Australian photographer Bernice Agar.
The Darling Downs Gazette
The Home Magazine
The Australian Women's Weekly
The Sun
Thea Proctor
Clara Butt
Jack Cato
"Record details of Bernice Isabel Agar"


"Agar, Bernice (1885–1976)"
"Bain Studio Exhibit"
Darling Downs Gazette


"Bernice Agar :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online"
ISBN
0864360398
"MISS BERNICE AGAR"
Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette
"In the matter of the Companies Act, 1899, and in the matter of BERNICE AGAR LIMITED"
Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales
Categories
1895 births
1976 deaths
20th-century women photographers
Australian women photographers

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