Harold Cazneaux

Harold Pierce Cazneaux (30 March 1878 – 19 June 1953), commonly referred to as H. P. Cazneaux, was an Australian photographer. In 1916, he was a founding member of The Sydney Camera Circle. He regularly participated in national and international exhibitions.

Cazneaux' photograph of Newington College War Memorial designed by William Hardy Wilson. Biography Sydney city photographic print by Harold Cazneaux about 1920, State Library of New South Wales, PXD 8061-39 a2057032h Cazneaux was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 30 March 1878. His father, Pierce Mott Cazneau, was an English-born photographer, and his mother, Emily Florence Cazneau, was a colourist, miniature painter and photographer from Sydney. Around 1890 the family moved to Adelaide, where the father began working for Hammer & Co., photographers with a studio in Rundle Street.

Cazneaux received further education at (unnamed) state schools in Adelaide, and worked for his father, taking night classes at the School of Design, Painting and Technical Art. In 1896, he started working for Hammer & Co. as a photo retoucher. and the £100 prize money went toward a deposit for his future home.

Cazneaux was a founder of The Sydney Camera Circle, whose pictorialist "manifesto" was drawn up and signed on 28 November 1916 by a group of six photographers: Cecil Bostock, James Stening, William Stewart White, Malcolm McKinnon and James Paton, later joined by Henri Mallard. This group pledged "to work and to advance pictorial photography and to show our own Australia in terms of sunlight rather than those of greyness and dismal shadows". He left Freeman & Co. in 1917

Publications Canberra, Australia's federal capital (1928) Sydney Harbour (1928) Sydney Surfing (1929) The Bridge Book (1930) The Sydney Book (1931) The Australian Native Bear Book (1932) The Frensham Book (1934)

Family

Harold Pierce Cazneaux (1878–1953) married Mabel Winifred Hodge (1882–) on 1 September 1905. They had a home on Dudley Avenue, Roseville, New South Wales. Their family included: Rainbow Winifred Cazneaux (17 May 1908 – 26 July 2008) married (RAN) Lieut. Hugh Malanai Johnson (14 January 1905 – c. July 1943) on 5 June 1894 Jean Lilian Cazneaux (20 December 1909 – 11 January 1980) married Eric James Blundell (31 Dec 1909 – 28 June 1986) of Roseville, NSW May Beryl Cazneaux (29 March 1911 – 30 April 1996) Carmen Florence Cazneaux (4 April 1913 – 15 October 2003) Joan Mabel Cazneaux (30 January 1916 or 1922 – 18 June 2004) married Herbert Smith sometime after 1938 Richard Harold Smith (18 March 1944 – ), well known as the entrepreneur and adventurer Dick Smith AC. Harold Ramsay Cazneaux (13 March 1920 – 14 September 1941) with 2nd AIF, died at Tobruk Cazneaux lived for much of his life in Roseville, on Sydney's North Shore. There he established the garden studio that was his main place of work until he died. The house, a Federation cottage called "Ambleside", is located in Dudley Avenue, but was neglected as of 2012.

Siblings Children of Pierce Mott Cazneau (c. 1849–1928) and Emma Cazneau, née Bentley (1855–1892); married 1876 Harold Pierce Cazneaux (1878–1953), subject of this article Major Gordon Cazneaux (c. 1880 – 7 September 1941) married Lizzie Gray Provest, née Clark (died 7 September 1941) in 1915. Carmen Cazneaux (3 March 1882 – 1966) married Ralph "Bert" Hammer ( –1964) on 6 September 1905, They had a home "Aroha", 96 First Avenue, St Peters, a suburb of Adelaide. "Bert" was a son of studio photographer William H. Hammer. Children of Pierce Mott Cazneau (c. 1849–1928) and Christina Margaret Jane Harley (c. 1867–1938), married 1895 Harley John Cazneaux (3 November 1896 – 31 March 1960) married Stella Marie (not Maxine) Francis on 25 December 1926. Dorothy Harley "Dot" Cazneaux (6 March 1903 – ) married William Mansell Minear on 6 August 1923,