13 – 16 February, 2020
Exhibition Opening times
Thursday – Friday 1 pm- 6 pm
Saturday – Sunday 11 am – 4 pm
Free entry
In this installation, we have the privilege to view 20 masterpieces, carefully selected from the portfolio of Julian Smith’s reproductions, titled 50 Masterpieces of Photography, published in 1946. The folio is a beautiful collection of portraits that surveys the work of a respected surgeon and pioneering photographer in Australia. A collection of character studies and portraits of prominent civil servants and individuals, often based on characters from Dickens’ novels.
Dr.Julian Smith has been described by Dr. Lucraft as “having the same genius with which Charles Dickens was blessed. Dickens had the happy gift of painting for us, in words, and with a few deft touches, the familiar types of men and women among whom he lived and worked; and he showed them to us in such a way that their personality, their very essence, was immortalised for all time.
The Maud Gallery and the Queensland Centre for Photography are now closed until February 8, 2025.
We wish you happy and safe holidays.
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THE MAUD STREET PHOTO GALLERY acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.
We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.