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01 Marina Picture PalaceRosebery2019
ISO 3202.5sf/8.014mm
Series · 2 prints
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Marina Picture Palace opened on 24 June 1927 on the corner of Gardeners Road and Sutherland Road, between Mascot and Rosebery. The architect William DePruton, who was also one of the original owners, designed it as a 1,210-seat single-screen picture palace, opening with a double bill of Mary Pickford in *Sparrows* and John Barrymore in *The Beloved Rogue*. The Snider & Dean Circuit ran the cinema from 1939 until the early 1960s. After a series of openings and closings under independent operators, the building reopened as the Rosebery Cinema on 1 October 1982 and closed as a working cinema for the final time on 8 February 1984. The stalls were converted into Videomania, a video shop that traded with much of the cinema's original decoration intact, until that closed by 2002. The building was converted to 47 apartments in the 2010s.
Hand-signed limited editions, printed from the original RAW file. Editions run from 100 down to 25 and are not reissued once they sell through.
Made to order by Brett in Sydney, from the original RAW file. Each print is hand-signed and numbered before it ships.
Paper
Ilford Galerie cotton rag, 310 gsm. Acrylic on metallic gloss, 260 gsm.
Lead time
Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.
People talk about what it was like to work or stay in these places, who they knew, what they did, how great the Christmas parties were, that store man nobody liked, what all the different machines were, how they worked and what became of them.
Broadsheet
On the LC archive.
There's this sense of wonder you get when looking at abandoned buildings. You try to imagine what these spaces were like when they were filled with busy workers trying to meet production targets. And why did they close?
The Guardian
On the LC archive.
I'm often contacted by people who used to frequent the places I photographed. They share stories that enter the collections as additions or corrections. Sometimes they send their own photos from the same viewpoints, taken decades earlier.
The Guardian
On the LC archive.
