2020 Australia Mid Century Fashions Designer issued
16 June 2020.
Some details about these stamps for those who are interested to learn a little more.
$1.10 - Athol ShmithBorn in St Kilda,
Louis "Athol" Shmith (1914–90) was the son of British immigrants. From being a music-loving youth, he rose to became one of Australia's leading portrait,
fashion and commercial photographers from the 1930s.
The photograph featured on the stamp was taken in
1948 and shows
Patricia Tuckwell, who
Shmith later married, modelling a
wasp-waisted Dior frock. Representing the earliest of the four decades shown, this studio shot exudes the precisely constructed glamour style for which
Shmith was known.
$1.10 - Helmut NewtonHelmut Neustaedter (1920–2004) arrived in Australia in 1940, leaving his native Germany as the Nazis Nuremburg laws came to dominate. At war's end, he became a British subject and Anglicised his surname to
Newton.
Helmut Newton established a photography studio in
Flinders Lane, Melbourne in 1946, working mainly with industrial and theatre subjects in the earlier years and then fashion from the early 1950s. He left for London in in the mid-1950s, working throughout Europe and gaining an international reputation for his edgy photographic style.
The stamp photograph was taken in 1959 for the Australian Wool Board and Vogue Australia. Shot on
Melbourne's Queen Street, it features Australian model
Janice Wakely (also a photographer).
$1.10 - Henry TalbotBorn
Heinz Tichauer (1920–99) to German Jewish parents and having studied graphic art in Berlin,
Henry Talbot arrived in Australia in 1942 via England. He worked for the Australian Army on the home front from 1942 to 1946, which is where he met fellow émigré photographer
Helmut Newton.
Following a passion for commercial photography, Talbot established a photography studio with Newton in the central of Melbourne in 1956, working almost exclusively in
fashion and advertising, bringing a fresh European sensibility to their work. A year or so later Newton left for England, leaving Talbot to run the business, which he did until Newton ended the informal partnership in 1961. The stamp photograph is of model
Maggie Tabberer, taken in the 1960s.
$1.10 - Bruno BeniniBruno Benini (1925–2001) arrived in Melbourne from Italy with his family in 1935. Benini's career as a photographer, capturing both Australian and international
fashion labels, stretched over five decades from the 1950s, most significantly from the 1950s to 1970s.
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