Richard Woldendorp Collection of Photographs

Brief description

A large collection of photographs taken by photographer, Richard Woldendorp, including a wide variety of images of people, buildings, places, industries, sport and entertainment in Western Australia.The photographs were taken between 1958 - 2006. The images can be accessed via the urls provided in the data.

Richard Woldendorp was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1927 and migrated to Perth in 1951. His long association with photography began in 1955 when he purchased a camera for a trip back to The Netherlands. Woldendorp's fascination with photography and skill rapidly grew and in 1961 won first and third prizes in the Craven-A National Photographic competition. As a professional photographer Woldendorp was intrigued by Australia's landscapes with a special passion for aerial photography. In 1991 Woldendorp was made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, then in 1998 was admitted as a Honorary Life Member to the Australian Commerical and Media Photographers (A.C.M.P.), then to the A.C.M.P. Hall of Fame. In 2004 Richard Woldendorp was named a Western Australian Living Treasure.

Full description

Richard Woldendorp Photographs.csv - Data describing the Woldendorp collection including: Bib record number,Call number ,Title on Bib record,Date,Description from Bib Record,Notes,Summary,Subject: People,Subject: topical,Collection,Caption,URL
Richard Woldendorp Collection_mods.xml - Woldendorp collection photographs in modsxml format, transformed using MarcEdit software. Modsxml is a human readable xml format (without librarian marc coding).\r\n\r\nFurther information about mods can be found here: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/ \r\n
Richard Woldendorp Photographs.xlsx - A spreadsheet with the following fields: Bib record number, call number, title, Date, Description, Notes, Summary, Subject: People, Subject: topical Collection, Caption and URL of image.\r\n\r\nEach image is on a separate row.
Richard Woldendorp Collection.xml - The Libraries Marc records translated into marc21xml using the MarcEdit software by Terry Reese.\r\nFurther information about marc21 xml can be found at http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/