Untitled (Theo Schoon)

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Untitled (Theo Schoon)

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This black and white portrait of the artist Theo Schoon was taken by Steve Rumsey in 1952, the year they met at the Mt Albert Plant Research Station in Auckland. Rumsey was employed as a scientific photographer, documenting plant diseases and insects studied by the institution, while Schoon was working on the farm staff. In the photograph, taken at the Mt Albert Plant Research Station, Schoon's face stares straight towards the camera. His body tilts to the right of the image and his left leg ...

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Image

Date created

13 December 1952

Creator

Steve Rumsey

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/676200

Related subjects

Men / Artists / Photographers / carvers / Theo Schoon / photographic gelatin / silver / black-and-white film / black-and-white negatives / gelatin silver negatives / portraits / black-and-white photography / Modernist / New Zealand

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