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'''Harold Cazneaux''' (30 March 1878 – 19 June 1953) was [[Australia]]’s greatest pictorialist photographer; a pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on the development of Australian photographic history. He was a founder of the [[pictorialism|Pictorialist]] [[Sydney Camera Circle]] whose "[[manifesto]]" had been drawn up and signed on 28th November 1916 by the founding group of six photographers which included, [[Cecil Bostock]], James Stening, W.S. White, Malcolm McKinnon and James Paton, (later joined by [[Henri Mallard]]). They pledged "to work and to advance pictorial photography and to show our own Australia in terms of sunlight rather than those of greyness and dismal shadows".<ref>Harold Cazneaux letter to Jack Cato 
National Library of Australia Manuscript MS 5416</ref><ref>Gael Newton "Silver and Grey: fifty years of Australian photography 1900 - 1950", Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1980</ref> As a regular participator in national and international exhibitions, Cazneaux was unfaltering in his desire to contribute to the discussion about the photography of his times. He created some of the most memorable images of the early twentieth century.