Keast Burke
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Eric Keast Burke
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16 January 1896 Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Died | 31 March 1974 (aged 78) Concord, New South Wales, Australia |
Eric Keast Burke (16 January 1896 – 31 March 1974) was a New Zealand-born photographer and journalist.
Burke was born at Christchurch, New Zealand. He was the only child of Walter Ernest Burke, and his wife Amy Eliza Mary, nee Thompson. He went to Sydney with his family in March 1904 and was educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School and the University of Sydney where he studied economics.
During World War I, after a year in the Signal Corps, Australian Military Forces, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. He embarked for the Middle East in December 1917 and served as a sapper with the 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. He was discharged on 28 January 1920 on his return to Sydney.
During World War II he served as a captain in the Volunteer Defence Corps, and worked in intelligence.
In 1922 he became associate-editor, under his father, of the Australasian Photo-Review. He exhibited his work in Australia, Europe, London and the United States of America, and in 1938 was elected an associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain for a portfolio of male figure studies. That year he was appointed Australian chairman of Kodak International Salons of Photography.
He edited the Australasian Photo-Review from 1946 until the journal folded in 1956 when he was employed as advertising manager for the Kodak Company.
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