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Lang Hancock

1985
Rennie Ellis

type C photograph on paper (sheet: 45.9 cm x 60.8 cm, image: 29.1 cm x 39.9 cm)
Lang Hancock

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
© Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive
www.RennieEllis.com.au

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2006.64
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Artist and subject

Rennie Ellis (age 45 in 1985)

Lang Hancock (age 76 in 1985)

Subject professions

Business, trades and industry

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1. Lang Hancock, 1980 (printed 2011) Lorrie Graham. © Lorrie Graham. 2. Bon Scott & Angus Young, Atlanta, Georgia, 1978 (printed 2010) Rennie Ellis. © Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive
www.RennieEllis.com.au. 3. Graeme Blundell (on bike as Alvin Purple), c. 1973 Rennie Ellis. © Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive
www.RennieEllis.com.au. 4. Angus Young, AC/DC, LA, 1978 Rennie Ellis. © Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive
www.RennieEllis.com.au.

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Bon Scott & Angus Young, Atlanta, Georgia
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Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2010

Bon Scott and Angus Young photographed by Rennie Ellis are part of a display celebrating summer and images of the shirtless male.
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