Henry Gold (photographer)

Henry Gold (born c. 1934) is an Australian photographer and environmental activist.

Gold emigrated to Australia from his native Austria in 1955, joined a hiking society (the Sydney Bush Walkers Club) and took up wilderness photography. His interest in landscape photography led him to travel to America, where he studied the work of photographers such as Ansel Adams. In the 1960s, his work was used in a campaign to protect the Colong Caves in New South Wales, and from this point onwards Gold's work began to receive wider attention.[1][2]

He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2006 for "service to wilderness preservation through the use of photographic documentation".[3]

References
  1. Martin Mulligan; Stuart Hill (22 October 2001). Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action. Cambridge University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-521-00956-0.
  2. Kitson, Janine (31 May 2018). "Seeing the Wild Light". National Parks Association of NSW. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  3. "Henry Gold - Landscape Photographer". Colong Foundation For Wilderness. Retrieved 5 June 2018.


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