Background
Alice Mills was born in 1870 in Ballarat into a lower-middle-class family, briefly moving to New Zealand and back with her family when she was still a young girl.
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Alice Mills
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She established her name among the top photographers in Melbourne after seven years of work. After her death she stayed within that group for thirty more years. Growing up she was trained in the Melbourne studios of Henry Johnstone and Mission O"Shaughnessy.
She didn"t have any children. techniques She practiced mainly with gelatin silver prints.
This type of photography was dominant from the 1850s–1880s, which had to be exposed and developed immediately after coating. Albumen prints were the main ones over the period mentioned where the binder was egg white.
Alice Mills worked from 1900 to 1929 when egg white was superseded by gelatin. She may have worked with platinum printing rather than silver giving a much more permanent image.
The works seen appear to be platinum having a distinct soft grey appearance.
Alice"s photography was often published in magazines, but she did have two exhibitions during her active photography period. Both called the National Women"s Art Exhibition. One was held in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in Sydney and the other was held in the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
Both were held during the month of June in 1995-1998.
With her exhibition of Women"s Work, Alice Mill"s studio portraits and press photographs of young men from war were mounted in a separate special display.
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Born
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1929 (aged 59) -
Nationality
Australian