Olive Cotton

**Olive Cotton** (11 ga watan Yuli, 1911 – 27 ga watan Satumba, 2003) ta kasance majagaba mai ɗaukar hoto na zamani a Australiya a shekarun 1930s da 1940, ta yi aiki a Sydney.

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Olive Edith Cotton a ranar 11 ga Yulin shekarar 1911,ɗan fari a cikin dangin fasaha,mai hankali.Iyayenta,Leo da Florence (née Channon) sun ba da tarihin kiɗa tare da wayar da kan siyasa da zamantakewa. Mahaifiyarta ta kasance mai zane-zane da pianist yayin da Leo masanin ilimin kasa ne, wanda ya ɗauki hotuna kan balaguron Sir Ernest Shackleton zuwa Antarctic a 1907.Iyalin auduga da 'ya'yansu biyar suna zaune a yankin daji na Hornsby a arewacin Sydney.Wani kawu, Frank Cotton farfesa ne a fannin ilimin halittar jiki kuma kakanta,Francis Cotton,memba ne na Majalisar Dokoki ta NSW a cikin Caucus na farko na Labour.

An ba da kyamarar Kodak No.0Box Brownie tana da shekara 11,Auduga tare da taimakon mahaifinta sun sanya wankin gida a cikin wani ɗaki mai duhu "tare da ƙara girma a cikin hasken ƙarfe".  Anan auduga ta sarrafa fim kuma ta buga hotunanta na farko baki da fari. Yayin hutu tare da danginta a Newport Beach a 1924, Cotton ya sadu da Max Dupain kuma sun zama abokai,suna raba sha'awar daukar hoto.Hoton "She-oaks"(1928)an dauki shi a Bungan Beach headland a wannan lokacin.

Cotton ya halarci Kwalejin Mata na Methodist,Burwood a Sydney daga 1921 zuwa 1929,ya sami malanta kuma ya ci gaba da kammala BA a Jami'ar Sydney a 1933,wanda ya fi girma a Turanci da Lissafi;ta kuma yi karatun kiɗa kuma ta kasance ƙwararriyar ƙwararriyar ƙwararriyar pian tare da ƙaƙƙarfan sha'awar Chopin's Nocturnes.

## Hotuna
Cotton ya shiga Ƙungiyar Kamara ta Sydney da Ƙungiyar Hotuna na New South Wales,samun koyarwa da ƙarfafawa daga mahimman masu daukar hoto irin su Harold Cazneaux .

Ta nuna hotonta na farko,"Duhu", a New South Wales Photographic Society's Interstate Exhibition na 1932.Abokan zamanta sun hada da Damien Parer, Geoff Powell,samfurin Jean Lorraine da mai daukar hoto Olga Sharpe,wanda ya ziyarci ɗakin studio.

A Ostiraliya a cikin 1930s abokan ciniki sun ɗauka cewa mutum ne zai zama mai daukar hoto.Auduga cikin wryly ta kira kanta a matsayin"mataimakiyar".Duk da haka a duk lokacin da zai yiwu auduga ya dauki hoton shahararrun mashahurai ko abubuwa masu ban sha'awa a cikin ɗakin studio,har ma da daukar nauyin Dupain yana aiki a cikin sashinta, "Fashion Shot, Cronulla Sandhills,kimanin 1937"kuma ya sanya hotunansa. Mawallafin Sydney Ure Smith ya ba ta kwamitoci da yawa,kuma ya ɗauke ta a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun masu daukar hoto na 1930s da 1940s.

Mujallar ma'aikatan Bankin Commonwealth *Bank Notes* ta gabatar da ƙarin hotuna na Auduga a matsayin misalai.

### Salo
A cikin shekarun 1930s Cotton ya sami ƙware ta amfani da salon daukar hoto na 'Pictorial'wanda ya shahara a lokacin kuma ya haɗa da salon salon zamani sosai.Hotunan auduga na sirri ne don jin daɗin wasu halaye na haske a kewaye.Daga tsakiyar 1934 har zuwa 1940 ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar Max Dupain a ɗakin studio ɗinsa na kasuwanci da ke Bond Street,Sydney, inda ta haɓaka hanya ta sirri wacce ta mai da hankali kan ɗaukar wasan haske akan abubuwa marasa rai da yanayi.Sau da yawa za ta yi amfani da kyamararta Rolleiflex don tabbatar da halayen da ba a bayyana ba yayin da Max ya saita hasken don hoto.Ba da daɗewa ba salonta ya bambanta da na sauran masu daukar hoto na zamani na zamaninta.

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