Milton Kent was a pioneer of industrial and aerial photography, a prize-winning airman and a champion sculler. Initially, Kent worked as a sports photographer but by the 1920s he had embraced aerial photography using a specially crafted oblique camera. Over the next 50 years, Kent used his camera to capture the opening of new blocks of land across Sydney, the construction of the harbour bridge and many other events up until his death in 1965.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Career
- 2.1 New Music for the Piano
- 2.2 Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
- 2.3 Cañonero II: The Rags to Riches Story of the Kentucky Derby's Most Improbable Winner (Sports)
- 2.4 The Haunted Palace & The Tower of London (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
- 2.5 Chronicles of Milton: Village left behind by time
- 2.6 GoldenHeart II: We Are Your Family
- 2.7 Dios y Federacion
- 2.8 Armaf Club De Nuit Intense Man EDT Men New in Box, Black , 3.6 Fl Oz
- 2.9 The Simpsons: The Complete First Season
- 2.10 Sings Big Soul
Early life
Milton’s father, Charles Kent, was born in Collingwood, Victoria in 1862. Charles was a photographer who bought his photo event from Murrell & Co. and operated from a building at 314 George Street, Sydney. Milton was born above this studio in 1888 and from the age of ten was apprenticed to his father.
Career
In 1909 Milton set stirring his own trailer business and his first arrangement was to photograph the fighter R. L. ‘Snowy’ Baker at the Rushcutters Bay Stadium. His Mentor camera could take over the action, but the outdated plate films and poor lighting inhibited indoor shots. Instead, he took his photos in the sunlit passages as regards the bleachers. Between 1914 and 1918 he photographed boxers in encounter poses, including Sid Francis; Jimmy Hill; Herb McCoy; Jeff Smith; and Les Darcy.
In Sydney, the motor industry was in its infancy and Milton found measure with many of the at the forefront people practicing in the trade. These businessmen, in turn, recommended Milton their connections and along later than the fact he delivered excellent results his business grew from strength to strength. In the years before the outbreak of World War One, he rode a motorcycle to jobs.
In 1911, he married Lillian Cropper, the daughter of an ex-mayor of Petersham but nevertheless found mature to engage once the other love of his life, flying. As in advance as 1912 he made box-kites modelled upon the designs by Lawrence Hargrave and he was future introduced to the aviator William Hart. Alert to the possibilities of aerial photography Kent took some images during one of Hart’s flights using hasty panchromatic glass plates. In 1916, he was appointed certified photographer to the State Government Aviation School at Richmond Sydney and became resolution friends past the chief instructor, Captain W. J. Strutt. While not officially allowed to fly planes Kent learnt ‘under the lap’ while on photographic patrols approximately Sydney but was not allowed to home or take off.
It was during this time that Kent learnt virtually oblique aerial photography at altitudes from 500 to 5000 feet. The greatest hardship was the dearth of allergic reaction of the plates which meant operating on full aperture at with mention to 1/200 of a second and images could by yourself be taken in full sunlight later than no cloud.
This phase of his aerial events ended gone Strutt disappeared in a flight higher than the Bass Strait. But Kent was convinced there was a publicize in aerial photography and higher than this period, he hired aircraft from Nigel Love, to pull off photographic work.
In 1918 Love had purchased house at Mascot and formed the Australian Aircraft and Engineering Company. He erected a canvas hangar on the site which went upon to become Sydney Airport. 1918 also wise saying Charles Kent handed beyond his issue to his son past he moved to Queensland.
In 1920, Kent imported a half-plate slanting aero camera from Carl Zeiss AG in Germany for factory projects and real estate subdivisions. In 1921 aerial views of Kirribilli and Circular Quay by Kent appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and three years forward-looking they published one of the more gruesome comings and goings which Kent covered. This was the aerial view of the area around Long Bay Correctional Centre where the body of a girl was found in May 1924.
In 1920 his son Lindsey was born, and he won the Mile Sculling Championship of New South Wales. It was afterward the year the New South Wales Aero Club was formed, and Milton was one of the first pupils after joining the club vis-а-vis 1924. He was awarded his licence in November 1926.
In 1927, he bought a Westland Widgeon two-seater monoplane gone silver wings and a blue two-toned fuselage. Kent felt the single wing gave a clearer view for his photographic work. On 12 November 1927, he used the aircraft to win the swiftness championship at the Aerial Derby in Queensland. The in imitation of year he tried to break the jet speed stamp album from Sydney to Brisbane. Unfortunately, his motor clip out over Broken Bay and he was irritated to crash-land his plane on a easily reached cliff. Kent and his co-pilot Larry Phipps were not slighted although the aircraft needed to be dismantled and carried through dense scrub to the nearest road. In June 1928, he and Captain Boyden took photographs of Charles Kingsford Smith’s ‘Southern Cross’ as it came in to estate at Sydney. And in 1930 he did the similar when Chichester arrived in Sydney after his solo flight from England.
For some years he was an aerial photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald and he photographed the Rothbury Riots in Northern New South Wales coalfields for them. Kent submitted a series of 24 aerial photographs to an aerial photograph competition held by the Photographers Association of America in 1929 and time-honored one of the highest awards from the association. For some years he was an aerial photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald and photographed the Rothbury Riots in Northern New South Wales coalfields for them.
By the 1940s Kent was the principal aerial photographer in Sydney and his feign was reproduced in thousands of advertisements in newspapers and magazines.
Last update 2021-08-06