professional photographer, was one of the official photographers employed to observe the transit of Venus at the end of 1874, the others being J. Sharkey at Eden and A. Tornaghi at Goulburn. Bischoff’s post was at the Blue Mountains station, near Woodford. ( Sydney Mail, 28 November 1874). In 1874 the Illustrated Sydney News reproduced a View of Government House and grounds from a photograph taken by Mr Bischoff nearly 12 months earlier ( Illustrated Sydney News December 1874, 4). At a conversazione at the NSW Academy of Art on 10 November 1875, an address on sketching and photography camps at Grose River for members of the Academy and other gentlemen was given by Eccleston de Faur . 'The Commissoners of the Melbourne and Philadelphia Exhibition having consented to defray the cost of the services of Mr Bischoff, it was determined if possible to do credit to the scenery by taking apparatus for large plates, 12 inches by 15 inches, although forming band loads for five men to be transported over a least fifteen miles of mountain road each way. The three plates numbered 1, 2, 3, were taken at the junction of the Govett’s Leap Creek with the Grose, looking respectively east, south-east … At our upper camp … a partial panorama was taken which is numbered 15 and 16’ ( Sydney Mail 13 November 1875).
At the NSW Academy of Art sixth annual exhibition in 1877: Landscape Photography – nos.153-158 Six Views at Mount Wilson , Blue Mountains, NSW – Bischoff, J. (exhibited by Mr Du Faur).
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- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2011
