item details
NamePhotographs
ProductionKate Coolahan; creating agency; circa 1950-1960
Classificationblack-and-white photographs
Materialsphotographic paper, photographic gelatin, silver
Techniquesblack-and-white photography
Registration NumberCA000483
Credit linePurchased 1998
Overview
A number of the images are of the artist modelling c.1950s.together with several relating to advertising work.
Modelling assigments include:
- Coolahan at The Dominion Museum standing next to bird displaysi.e. seagull hawk;
- Riccar sewing machine display;
- Santa Claus, produced for Christmas card;
- Berlei giidle;
- Coolahan handfeeding a donkey;
- Modelling swimwear;
- Photographed in a cemetary;
- Modelling nightwear;
- Posing with Maori carvings, patu and Maori Pah,
- etc.