Source
Laurence Le Guay — Obituary
Citation
“Laurence Le Guay.” The Sydney Morning Herald, October 1990. Obituary notice for the Australian photographer Laurence Le Guay (1917–1990), co-founder of Contemporary Photography magazine (Sydney, 1946) and Australian commercial-photography pioneer.
Relevance
Tier-3 news-of-record reference for Laurence Le Guay (1917–1990), the Australian photographer whose print appears at plate #15 of The Family of Man (Lovers). Source for the biographical dates in pher-laurence-le-guay.
Key excerpts / pages
- Birth: 1917, Australia.
- Death: 1990, Sydney.
- Career summary: Royal Australian Air Force service (WWII, aerial reconnaissance in North Africa); co-founder of Contemporary Photography (Sydney, first issue December 1946).
Notes
- Art Gallery of New South Wales and the State Library of New South Wales hold Le Guay archive material — deeper Tier-1 references for provenance work.
- The MoMA Master Checklist prints the name as “Laurence LeGuay” (one word); most Australian publications print it “Laurence Le Guay” (two words, with space). Our
data/photographs.csvpreserves the checklist spelling;data/photographers.csvuses the canonical “Laurence Le Guay” and notes the variant. - Perspective: journalistic / biographical.
- Not fetchable anywhere (Sydney Morning Herald paywall; no Wayback Machine snapshot found via archive.org API). Marked verified: false per issue #9 procedure. Wikipedia’s Le Guay entry records a more specific birth date (25 December 1916, Chatswood) and a different death date (2 February 1990) and states Contemporary Photography ceased in 1950 — but per CREDIBILITY.md Wikipedia is not a valid citation endpoint. An earlier draft of this file adopted the Wikipedia values (and propagated the 1916 birth year to
data/photographers.csv); that change was reverted pending direct verification against the SMH obituary or an Australian archival reference (AGNSW, State Library of NSW). The values here are the seed-entry / SMH-cited values only.