11 Facts About Sam Hood

Samuel John Hood was an Australian photographer and photojournalist born in South Australia whose career spanned from the 1880s to the 1950s.

Sam Hood was born at Glenelg, South Australia, his father John Hood was an artist who had a studio at Glenelg.

Sam Hood supplemented this income by selling framed images of sailing vessels to their crews upon arrival in Sydney Harbour.

Sam Hood took photographs at the Dore Studio in Queen Victoria Markets.

At the beginning of Sam Hood's career photography in newspapers was a novelty, and although the technology to reproduce half tone illustrations was in use by 1880 the Australian papers and in particular wood engravers whose job it was to illustrate articles resisted the new process.

Sam Hood is acknowledged as a trailblazer in this genre - becoming adept at capturing the sensational, trivial and in particular sporting moments with his camera.

Sam Hood sought other kinds of commissions, and won a number of long term advertising and commercial contracts.

Sam Hood contributed a number of photographs of Sydney buildings and streets to Building, Construction and Australasian Engineer during the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Sam Hood worked Ministry of News and Information service and documented the armed service during World War Two and had had extensive contacts in the entertainment industry, who called upon him to document celebrity events and stars, as well as theatre advertising.

Sam Hood moved to Glenbrook in the Blue Mountains in around the year 1949.

Sam Hood died after collapsing on the street in Eddy Avenue, Sydney, while on his way to catch a train home.