Three Windows

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/6 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Three tall, narrow windows in dark timber frames fill one wall of a room at Waterfall Sanatorium, pink paint pulling away from the plaster in long strips around them. Overgrown foliage and the brick face of an adjacent ward building stand beyond the glass. A thin diagonal crack runs across the wooden floor toward the skirting. Light falls evenly from all three openings, picking out pale patches of exposed render.

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In situ

Three Windows at Waterfall Sanatorium, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Three Windows at Waterfall Sanatorium, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Three Windows at Waterfall Sanatorium, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Three Windows
Series: Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue: WSA-051
Process: Giclée
Captured: 24 June 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/6 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Three tall windows line a wall in one of the wards at Waterfall Sanatorium. The windows are timber-sashed, the panes intact, the sashes weathered to bare wood. Peeling paint frames the openings. The view through the windows shows the overgrown grounds outside. The wall around the windows is plastered, the paint worked back to bare plaster across patches.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives and was renamed Waterfall Sanatorium around 1912. The hospital was the largest TB facility in NSW by 1919, with 788 patients. It closed in 1958 when antibiotic therapy made the isolation model unnecessary. The older ward buildings have stood largely disused since; the bush of the wider site has worked in toward the buildings in the decades that followed.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Three timber-framed windows sit evenly spaced across a rendered wall. The centre window lets in green. Trees press close to the building outside, their canopy filtering soft afternoon light onto the concrete floor. Plaster has separated from the lower wall in patches. The floor is bare, scuffed, faintly polished where light pools beneath the middle pane. Through the side windows, corrugated roofing and brick walls of adjacent buildings are visible. The room is empty. Still air.

Brett Patman

The series

Waterfall Sanatorium

2016–2018 · 54 photographs

The first patients arrived at the Hospital for Consumptives, Waterfall on 14 April 1909, with initial provision for 180 men. A women's wing opened in May 1912 for 120; by 1919 it had become the largest sanatorium in New South Wales, holding 788 patients. The site sat at about 1,000 feet (305 m), 26 miles (42 km) south of Sydney, on the medical theory that tuberculosis needed 'high and rarefied atmosphere in the country away from the grime and pollution of cities'.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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