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New Albert Tucker Photographic Collection
11 October 2008
Albert Tucker's widow Barbara Tucker has donated a collection of the artist's original photographs to the State Library of Victoria and the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Albert Tucker's photographs give an important insight into the personalities of the Melbourne art world in the forties and fifties, and a number of them first appeared in Richard Haese's ground-breaking book Rebels and Precursors: The revolutionary years of Australian art.
Although Albert Tucker made no claim to be a professional photographer, his shots of family and friends are strikingly candid and touching. His popular images have been reproduced endlessly in books and articles, and sold in limited edition art prints.
The entire collection of photographs arrived at the Library packed in one wooden cigar box, and the original prints are surprisingly slight in scale.
It is Barbara Tucker's wish that these photographs can be enjoyed by the public through the State Library's cataloguing and digitising program.
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