Bert Newton and Muhammad Ali, presentation of Logie Awards, Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, 17 March
Bruce Postle took this photograph at the 21st TV Week Logie Awards ceremony at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne. It captures the moment that the world’s greatest boxer Muhammad Ali jokingly kissed Channel Nine and Logie presenter Bert Newton on the cheek. Postle explains that after the kiss, Newton said, ‘I like the boy’, then Ali recoiled and stared very hard at Newton, who, thinking his last days had come, had to engage in some rapid adlibbing to save the moment. Newton went on to win the coveted Gold Logie later in the evening and also the award for Most Popular Male Personality (Victoria).
(2016)
Gelatin silver prints are black-and-white photographic prints that have been created using papers coated with an emulsion of gelatin and light-sensitive silver salts. After the papers are briefly exposed to light (usually through a negative), a chemical developer renders the latent image as reduced silver, which is then fixed and washed. This technique was first introduced in the 1870s and is still used today. Most twentieth-century black-and-white photographs are gelatin silver prints. They are known for being highly detailed and sharply defined prints with a distinguishable smooth, even image surface.
