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The Life and Times of Alan Elliott Vers4 21Feb2021 HD

This is version 4 of the Audio Visual presentation 'The Life and Times of Alan Elliott' produced by Alan's step-son Chris Lee-Ack. It is a further enhanced version with more pictures at slightly shorter intervals, plus a few editorial corrections. The first Audio Visual production was shown at Alan's Funeral service Monday November 9th 2020. OBITUARY Alan Elliott was 99 years of age when he passed away Friday October 30th in the Palliative Ward of the Alfred Hospital. He remarked jokingly on occasions that he chose his parents wisely for their good life long quality genes. 99 active years is a very good innings by any measurement and so is 60 years of involvement and service to the Melbourne Camera Club. Alan should be remembered with great affection and praised for many and continuous contributions. An Industrial Chemist by training Alan joined the Analytical firm of Sharp & Howells as a young cadet before WW2 and semi-retired 20years ago as a partner but was still freely consulting on analytical advise up to last year. His old firm Sharp & Howells sponsors the club’s annual End of Year Photojournalism Trophy award in his name. Of his many hobbies and past-times, Photography was the most enduring. Alan joining Melbourne Camera Club in the 1960s. He was Club President in 1969 when it was located in the basement at 21 Queen Street. Alan competed in Prints and Slides and was a specialist Kodachrome user with his favourite Nikon cameras. But also had a wide range of rangefinder to medium and 5x4 format film cameras. Alan moved with the times into digital cameras and only stopped entering competitions when his macula eyesight degenerated severely. However this did not stop Alan coming to the Clubrooms just a stones throw from where he lived in Dorcas St. He was a long term South Melbourne resident and identity well before the Club purchased the Old Freemanson’s Building in 1979 that it still occupies. Alan had a strong interest in the Japanese culture which could be seen from the books he collected and the Japanese artifacts that were on display in his home. Several Audio Visual productions on his Japanese collections and interests can that can be viewed at:-    • Urushi  Japanese Lacquerware v6L by AlanEl...   - Urushi Japanese Lacquerware, and    • UKIYO E the art of Japanese Woodblock Prin...   - UKIYO-E Japanese Woodblock Printing Alan was the Club’s Archivist from the 1980s till just recently and was responsible for more than 50 articles over the years in MCC’s Exposure and other Journals. He authored several very important books for the Club. In 1990 ‘A century Exposed’ was produced for the Club’s centenary and has one of Alan’s signature images on the cover. Another milestone book for Alan after 25 years of devoted research was the biography on Ludivico Hart ‘The Compete Photographer’. Professor Hart is the acknowledged founder of the Melbourne Camera Club which when founded in 1891 and untill 1919 was the Working Mens College Camera Club (WMC is now RMIT University). Alan was a great researcher on the history of early Victorian Photographers - Walter Woodbury & the Woodbury process being an example. He was sort after by the NGV, SLV and Museum Victoria to identify and date early photographic images in and around historic Melbourne and Victoria. He was most proud of an Audio Visual production about the 1900 to 1950 history of Australian photography with myself and Simon Galbally titled ‘Pictorialism to Modernism’. Alan was a willing participant for working bees that lasted years following the 1979 purchase of the largely dilapidated building and now renovated as our current Club Headquarters. For Alan 97th Birthday an Audio Visual of his milestones and life experiences can be seen in a short 3 minute production at    • Alan97th Birthday 22Aug2018 V1b 3min PSP9 Mpg   Many distinctions came Alans way - an Order of Australia, Melbourne Camera Club Life Membership, ARPS photography achievement letters and the Royal Photography Society of GB Fenton Medal are but a few of the accolades. He held world wide Chemistry Patents that even in recent years were the subject of USA court actions. During WW2 Alan invented and undertook an extremely dangerous but important emergency production for the Australasian testing of the Nickel content in structural steel. There are many more notable analytical achievements to his name. Alan was a widely read and a knowledgeable character, always methodical and interesting to work with. His cognitive abilities were working to the end, it was just his physical body that kept deteriorating and letting him down. I will always remember Alan with affection for the great range of photography projects he undertook and most especially the annual archive exhibitions that we put so much effort into showing each year in the Club gallery. – Rest In Peace our great friend and fellow photographer John Spring (MelbCC Life Member) October 30th 2020