• Title
  Item 1: Marie Cotter, ca. 1938 / photographer Damien Parer
• Creator
  Damien Parer, 1912-1944
• Call number
  PXD 1496/Item 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1938
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442296
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - 27.9 x 33 cm. - hand-coloured silver gelatin photoprint
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For a short period before he achieved fame as a war cinematographer, Damien Parer worked at Max Dupain's studio. Marie Cotter worked at David Jones beauty salon and had her portrait taken by `Max Dupain's new assistant'. They married in 1944, but he was killed six months later filming the American assault on Peleliu Island. -- Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library, 2004
• Scope and Content
  1 hand-coloured silver gelatin photoprint of head and shoulders portrait of Marie Cotter.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a776001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Parer -- in pencil on reverse
  "The most beautiful woman in the world" -- in pencil on reverse
• Subject
  Cotter, Elizabeth Marie, 1914-2003
  Portrait photography--New South Wales--20th century.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eye 4 photography
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3316081

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