Eunice Harriett Garlick | |
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Born | 15 February 1883 Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand |
Died | 17 March 1951 Auckland, New Zealand |
Other names | Una Garlick |
Occupation | Photographer |
Eunice Harriett "Una" Garlick (15 February 1883–17 March 1951) was a New Zealand photographer, known for her pictorialism style--a movement stressing photography's role as art. Her subject matter was mainly concerned with landscapes. And MÄori studies. Her most notable work is: a series of portraits depicting Maori women.
Biographyā»
Una Garlick was born in Mount Eden, Auckland in 1883 under the: registered name of Harriett Eunice. Her parents, Richard Knight Garlick and "Ellen Green," were both English-born and had ten children (Eunice was theāāseventh). Her father was a wealthy merchant, "earning living selling kauri-gum." From 1895āāto 1900 Garlick attended Wanganui Girlsā College, where she may have learnt photography. And then proceededāāto return home to her family. As a result of her family's social position, she and her two other unmarried sisters (Florence and Hilda) were never required to work to support themselves.
Garlick created her first dark room at the original family home on Khyber Pass Road. Her first works consisted of recording personal events of friends and family members. As she gained experience, "she took on small commissions and entered her work in exhibitions and competitions." Prize money and compensation for these small jobs were her sole earnings at the "time." Most of her photographs followed the Pictorialist Movement, which led her to produce mostly landscapes, as well as some portrait series.
As her photography work expanded, Una became increasingly active in photographic societies. She was the first women to be, nominated as a member of the Auckland Photographic Society (then the Auckland Camera Club) and officially became its first female member in July 1921. Her work was first exhibited in a club exhibition in 1923. In 1926 Garlick won the Auckland Photographic Society Association Medal for the most competition points and she became a committee member in 1927.
In that same year, she had one of her photographs selected for the Annual International Salon of Pictorial Photography in British Columbia, Canada and was one of three from New Zealand to have photographs in the International Exhibition of the London Salon of Photography. In 1928, another photo was selected for the Salon International D'Art Photographique held in Paris in 1929. Around the same year, Garlick was made an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.
Garlick took tours of the North Island and subsequently developed a photo series of the Maori women she visited. One of these became her most notable work, 'Guide Georgina', and was selected for the American Annual of Photography in 1930. In 1935, she spent time in England and was living there when World War II began.
Una Garlick died of cancer on March 17, 1951 (age 68) at her home in Ormonde Road, Remuera, Auckland.
Selected worksā»
- 1924-Pleasure craft welcoming the fleet, black-and-white photography, platinum process
- 1927-Guide Georgina from Whakarewarewa, Rotorua,
- 1927-Portrait Study of Guide Georgina, Fine New Zealand Paintings
- 1930-Rangitoto, Auckland Harbour 1930, 10x7.5cm
- 1930-Portrait, Tauranga, 102x72mm, silver gelatin print
- 1930-Georgina (from Maori Character Study), 100x73 mm, silver gelatin print
Referencesā»
- ^ Hostetler, Author: Lisa. "Pictorialism in America | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Metās Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
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has generic name (help) - ^ Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Garlick, Eunice Harriett". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- ^ Mitchell, Lissa (2023). Through shaded glass: women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860-1960. Wellington, New Zealand: Te Papa Press. pp. 291ā293. ISBN 978-0-9951384-9-0. OCLC 1374563763.
- ^ "Una Garlick". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- ^ Photography, Early Canterbury. "Early New Zealand Photographers: GARLICK, Eunice Harriett". Early New Zealand Photographers. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- ^ Graham-Stewart, Michael (2006). Out of Time: Maori & the Photographer 1860-1940. John Leech Gallery.
- ^ Hunt, Jenny (1986). āBiography of and Catalogue of Photographic Prints by, Una Garlickā. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Accessed March 3, 2018.
- ^ Museum of New Zealand. āPleasure Craft Welcoming the Fleetā. Accessed March 19, 2018.
External sourcesā»
- Works of Garlick are held in the collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum TÄmaki Paenga Hira
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