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Professor Josef Lederer and Professor Barry Collin on the unveiling of a portrait of Professor Lederer

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Catalogue Number: 2718
Professor Josef Lederer and Professor Barry Collin on the unveiling of a portrait of Professor Lederer
Category: Photographs
Sub-Category: Photograph People and events
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1986
Time Period: 1940 to 1999
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Sydney
Description Of Item: Digital colour image, 1280 x 982, 841 kb, of Professor Josef Lederer and Professor Barry Collin with a portrait of Professor Lederer by Henry Hanke
Historical Significance: Professor Lederer (1921-2007) was professor of optometry at the University of NSW ( 1976-1981)and the first professor of optometry in Australia. He was the first full time lecturer in the optometry course at the Sydney Technical College and Head of the School of Optometry when it was established at the University of NSW in 1950. He was a very active political and educational leader of the optometric profession. See his profile under the tab 'People who made history'. Professor Collin (1933- ) was his successor at the University of NSW, taking up the chair in 1981. Barry Collin graduated LOSc from the Australian College of Optometry in 1953 and the following year did a BSc degree with a major in pathology. He practised with his father for 7 or so years before accepting the second full-time lectureship in the Victorian College of Optometry in 1963. He was promoted to Reader after completing a Masters degree and a PhD and building an impressive research record before accepting the chair in optometry at the University of NSW. He was a very important figure in the development of research in the College in the 1960s and 1970s. His profile is published in Clin Exp Optom 2001; 84: 39-42, which is also to be found on this web site under the tab 'People who made history'. The artist Henry Hanke (1901-1989) was an Australian painter and teacher, who won the Archibald Prize in 1934 with a self-portrait, and the inaugural Sulman Prize in 1936 with his painting 'La Gitana'. Hanke was a war artist during the Second World War, during which he completed many paintings in New Guinea.
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