17/08/2020
A Country Life; the black and white photographs of Olive R Odewahn, edited by Catherine Rogers
This is a book about photography and photographs and what a keen amateur photographer quietly did with her camera and many hundreds of rolls of black and white film in the middle of the twentieth century.
Olive Rose Odewahn (1914-2006) pictured her life and her surrounds in the picturesque, productive, rural Riverina area of south-eastern Australia. Her photographs are charming and always thoughtful pictures that image a time long past.
Olive kept most of her original negatives which is what prompted the making of both this book and the exhibition of her prints scheduled for exhibition at MAMA Albury, in March 2021.
A selection has been made from some of her 650 negatives and over a hundred photographs have been printed in our publication as duotone images.
Essays by Catherine Rogers and Janis Wilton discuss the camera and photography, the photographer and her pictures as well as viewing the pictures from historical and personal perspectives.
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