Henry Talbot

Henry Talbot, born Heinz Tichauer (6 January 1920, Germany – 1999) was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his long association with the Australian fashion industry, particularly the Australian Wool Board. Life and career Born in Germany to Jewish parents, he studied graphic design at the Reimann School in Berlin. Henry first travelled to London, England under pressure from rising tensions. There he worked as a window-dresser at a department store. After the Kristallnacht, Henry's father Max was detained, but having won the Iron Cross in World War I, Max was released, and subsequently Max and his wife fled to Bolivia. In England, Henry was interned as a German National by two plain clothes policemen and later shipped to Australia on the Dunera. During his internment in Hay, New South Wales, Henry practiced his artwork and studied in the camp 'university' established by the internees. Upon release in 1942, Henry joined the Australian Army, in which he served until 1946, loading and unloading goods trains at the New South Wales / Queensland border, where he established a close personal friendship with fellow German refugee Helmut Newton. After the War, Henry refreshed his studies of graphic design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Henry then visited his parents in Cochabamba, Bolivia, practicing art and reviving his pre-war interest in photography, winning a local photography prize.