Athol Shmith
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Louis Athol Shmith, FRPS, was an Australian studio portrait and fashion photographer and photography educator in his home city of Melbourne, Australia. He contributed to the promotion of international
Lt Hamilton Lamb MLA photographed by Athol Shmith; a portrait typical of those he produced of service personnel during WW2
Athol Shmith demonstrates lighting techniques to a second year photography class at Prahran College of Advanced Education in 1975.
John Cato
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John Chester Cato was an Australian photographer and teacher. Cato started his career as a commercial photographer and later moved towards fine-art photography and education. Cato spent most of his li
Athol Shmith
…costume as lit by his 'inky dinky light', a top spotlight diffused by tracing paper. Shmith treated his female sitters and models as princesses. In 1950 John Cato, the son of Jack Cato became co-director of Shmith's studio, who recalled that Shmith; ...was a man of enormous enthusiasms. He was childlike because…
John Cato and fiancee, Dawn Cadwallader
Elizabeth Durack, 1961, by John Cato