Henry Walter Barnett

Henry Walter Barnett , usually known as H. Walter Barnett, was an Australian photographer and filmmaker. Barnett was a prominent portrait photographer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, establishing the successful Falk studios in Sydney. Later in his career he was based in London, England, with studios at Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge. Barnett became involved in filmmaking after meeting cinematographer Marius Sestier in 1896, and with Sestier made some of the first films shot in Australia.

Barnett was born onJanuary 1862 in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, one of seven children of Englishborn Jewish parents Lewis Barnett, a merchant, and his wife Alice Jacobs. He left school at the age ofand began his photographic career as a studio assistant, later establishing a studio in Hobart, Tasmania with his business partner Harold Riise. In 1884 he sold his share of the Hobart studio, after which he travelled and worked variously in London and the United States. During his time in London he was employed by the society photographers W. amp D. Downey, where he assisted in photographing the future King Edward VII.

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