A retrospective exhibition of the work of Axel Poignant, born 1906, mounted by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1982. #0920 Featuring Arnhem Land Aborigines
After moving to Perth with his first wife in 1930 Poignant gained an interest in photography as a personal career when he invested in a Leica camera in 1933 and specialised in portrait photography through Muriel Chase. Not long afterwards, Poignant and Stuart Gore decided to open a studio together in London where they worked on an aerial photographic survey of the Western Australian goldfields. Photographs of karri logging at