Mosman

LIFE MEMBERS

1985 - Mrs Lois Mullens
1985 - Jim Mullens
1985 - Colin Cameron
2010 - Peg Jones
2012 - Yvonne Lewington
2012 - Philip Ramsden
2012 - Mike West
2014 - Hans Lignell
2021 - Pamela Francis

left to right - Peg Jones, Yvonne Lewington, Philip Ramsden, Mike West, Hans Lignell, Pamela Francis

3rd August 1956 the Middle Harbour Camera Club was formed.
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5th October 1956 - The first General Meeting was held, with 46 persons present.
Fees were set at £2.2.0 per person per year or £3.3.0 for a married couple or lady friend of male member.
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11th November 1957 - Annual General Meeting
Resolution to change the name to Mosman Middle Harbour Camera Club
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14th February 1958 - Extraordinary General Meeting
Caused by resignation of Mr T. Rudd, Miss P. Williams and Miss M. Dowse.
Election of new Officers: Chairman Mr L. Green; Committee: Mr A. Box; Mr B. Green and Mr C. Cameron;
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24th November 1958 - Annual General Meeting
President Mr Henri Mallard; Vice President Mr Max Wilson; Chairman Mr D. McCauley;

HENRI MARIE JOSEPH MALLARD
circa 1916 by Monte Luke

DOB 9th February 1884 in Balmain
DOD 21st January 1967 in Balmain

Nationality - Australian

Using his French connections, he secured a position in 1900 with Harrington (later Kodak Pty Ltd) as a sales representative to the French consulate.

20th June 1911 Henri joined the Photographic Society of NSW.

1917 joined the Sydney Camera Circle, whose "manifesto" had been drawn up and signed on 28th November 1916 by the founding group of six photographers; Harold Cazneaux, Cecil Bostock, James Stening, W.S. White, Malcolm McKinnon and James Paton.

He also contributed lectures and technical demonstrations to the Photographic Society of NSW.

Married to Hilda Mary Cousins

He is best known for his documentation of the Australian icon Sydney Harbour Bridge between the late 1920s to the early 1930s. Photographing from precarious vantage points on the bridge itself, sometimes a hundred meters above Sydney Harbour, his work sets the construction against the harbour and the growing city and uses the figures of the workers to represent the scale of this Depression-era engineering feat. His pictures and film of the Bridge were an intentional historical document and the project was self-generated. Between 1930 and 1932, he produced hundreds of stills and film footage.

Prior to his project to document the Bridge, Mallard worked in the Pictorialist style prevailing in the Photographic Society of NSW and though Modernist in composition and design, many of the Bridge images are printed in bromoil. By comparison, Harold Cazneaux''s contemporaneous photographs, taken from around the base of the bridge, retain a romantic Pictorialism. In 1976 the Australian Centre for Photography commissioned David Moore (1927–2003) to make an archive of gelatin silver prints from the collection of Mallard's glass negatives and these were published in association with Sun Books in 1978.

31st November 1958 Committee Meeting
Print Committee: Mr C.S. Smith; Mr Bob Green; Mr G. Simpson Lyttle; Mr C. Cameron; Mr L. Green;
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23rd November 1959 - Annual General Meeting
Was decided that the President should take an active part in the Club, with the Chairman to become President and the Vice President to be added as elective position.
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26th November 1960 Committee Meeting: it was decided to join the Federation of Camera Clubs NSW.

FEDERATION of CAMERA CLUBS (N.S.W.)

November 1963 - Annual General Meeting
Name changed to Mosman Camera Club.
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November 1971 - Annual General Meeting
Decision to try the Merit and Credit system of point scoring.
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November 1972 - Annual General Meeting
1972 Membership 25 M and 30 F
1972 Print of the Year: Mike West - Slide of the Year: R. Sturrock
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November 1973 - Annual General Meeting
1973 Membership 36 M and 28 F
1973 Print of the Year: Jim Mullens - Slide of the Year: Jim Mullens
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November 1974 - Annual General Meeting
FCC Delegates: F. Black; G. Bowman; E. Pendlebury;
1974 Membership 26 M and 24 F
1974 Print of the Year: Jim Mullens - Slide of the Year: Jim Mullens
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November 1975 - Annual General Meeting
1975 Membership 30 M and 28 F
1975 Print of the Year: Jim Mullens - Slide of the Year: N. Griffin
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November 1976 - Annual General Meeting
1976 Membership 28 M and 28 F
1976 Print of the Year: Jim Mullens - Slide of the Year: N. Griffin
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November 1977 - Annual General Meeting
1977 Membership 28 M and 28 F
1977 Print of the Year: M. Foreman - Slide of the Year: E. Pendlebury
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November 1978 - Annual General Meeting
1978 Membership 25 M and 28 F
1978 Print of the Year: Jim Mullens - Slide of the Year: M. Hodgson
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November 1979 - Annual General Meeting
1979 Membership 25 M and 35 F
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November 1980 - Annual General Meeting
1980 Membership 30
1980 Print of the Year: Jim Mullens - Slide of the Year: Mrs I. Nye
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November 1981 - Annual General Meeting
1981 Membership 49
1981 Print of the Year: B. Baker - Slide of the Year: Nan Tremont
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November 1982 - Annual General Meeting
1982 Membership 50
1982 Print of the Year: Jim Mullens - Slide of the Year: Jim Amos
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November 1983 - Annual General Meeting
Errol Bode donated trophy to be awarded annually for Freestyle slides.
1983 Print of the Year: Jim Mullens - Slide of the Year: Bill Hallam - Freestyle slide: Mrs I. Nye
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November 1984 - Annual General Meeting
1984 Membership 52
FCC Delegates: E. Bode; Bill Hallam;
1984 Print of the Year: Julie Taylor - Slide of the Year: E. Pendlebury - Freestyle slide: Julie Taylor
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November 1985 - Annual General Meeting
1985 Print of the Year Monochrome: Jim Mullens - Print of the Year Color: Julie Taylor
1985 Slide of the Year: Jan Williams - Freestyle slide: Jim Mullens

1985 LIFE MEMBERSHIP of the Mosman Camera Club awarded to - Mrs Lois Mullens, Mr Jim Mullens and Mr Colin Cameron

November 1986 - Annual General Meeting
1986 Print of the Year Monochrome: Arch Raymond - Print of the Year Color: Julie Taylor
1986 Slide of the Year: P. Hole - Freestyle slide: Bill Hallam
1986 Most Improved - Slides Mary Raymond; Monochrome Nan Tremont; Color print Cherilyn Chittick;
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November 1987 - Annual General Meeting
1987 Membership 76
August 1987 - Bill Hallam started a Club newsletter, with the title NEWSFLASH
10 September 1987 Four Way Interclub results: 1st Mosman; 2nd North Sydney Leagues; 3rd Lane Cove; 4th Northern Suburbs.
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1988 Federation of Camera Clubs NSW Interclub - Mosman gained 1st Monochrome; 1st Color prints; 3rd Nature prints; 1st Landscape monochrome prints; 2nd Landscape color prints; 11th Color slides; 10th Nature slides
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5th August 1988 - Annual General Meeting
1988 Membership 70