{{Short description|Australian photographer (1923–2005)|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Orphan|date=November 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Margot Donald | image = | caption = | birth_name = Margot Donald | birth_date = {{birth date|1923|1|1|df=y}} | birth_place = Roseville, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|8|28|1923|1|1|df=y}} | death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_cause = | occupation = Photographer, colourist | spouse = | parents = William John Donald | website = | television = | education = | alma_mater = | module = }}
'''Margot Moore''' ({{née}} '''Donald''', 1 January 1923 – 28 August 2005) was an Australian photographer.<ref name=gael>{{cite book|last1=Newton|first1=Gael|title=Shades of Light|date=1988|publisher=Australian National Gallery|location=Canberra|isbn=0642081522|page=119}}</ref> She began her career in Sydney, and later made her way to London. She was a set designer, and also made backgrounds and portraits.<ref name=daao />
==Early life== Donald was born in the Sydney suburb of Roseville on 1 January 1923.<ref name="wr">{{cite web |title=Donald, Margot |url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/entries/donald-margot/ |website=The Australian Women's Register |access-date=22 March 2026}}</ref> Her father, William John Donald, was a cartoonist.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222713525 |title=Will Donald's First |newspaper=The Sun |issue=1221 |location=Sydney |date=22 August 1926 |accessdate=25 March 2016 |page=32 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> When Margot was thirteen, she received her first Brownie camera from her father, and she quickly developed an interest in photography.<ref name=daao />
The work produced by the Hobberts studios had been described by Sydney Ure Smith, editor of the Home and Art in Australia, as ''chic and smart advertising... typical of the rapid growth and sophistication of commercial photography studios at the time''.<ref name=hall>{{cite book|last1=Barbara|first1=Hall|title=Australian Women Photographers 1840-1960|date=1986|publisher=Greenhouse Publications Pty Ltd|location=385 Bridge Road, Richmond|page=106|isbn=0864360398}}</ref>
==Career==
===1939–1946=== Donald began work in 1939 as a junior colourist in the Russell Roberts Advertising Studio, Sydney. She moved to Falk Studios (founded by Walter Barnett) in 1942.<ref name=daao>{{cite web|title=Margot Donald Biography|url=http://www.daao.org.au/bio/margot-donald/biography/?|website=Design & Art Australia Online|publisher=Malor, Deborah|accessdate=2 April 2015}}</ref>
===1947–1949=== In 1940s returning servicemen reclaimed many of the traditional male roles within the workforce, although Donald kept her place at Russell Roberts until 1949. Whilst she was there she gained exposure and recognition for her commercial photography work. Her work can be seen in ''Australian Photography'' (1947), ''Photograms of the Year'' (1947) and ''Contemporary Photography'' (1949). In the 1940s Donald traveled to England, where she was employed at American Lintas Advertising Studios. Due to her experience Donald had a considerable advantage within the field of Commercial Photography having been exposed to it from a young age. Donald gained more experience within her chosen field of photography.<ref name=daao />
===1950s=== In 1950s Donald returned to Australia and began working with colour film. During this period Donald married and worked as a commercial photographer.<ref name=daao />
==Collections== One of Donald's collections can be viewed in the National Gallery of Australia .<ref name=daao />
Donald's photographs ''Patricia'' and ''My Joy Gloves'' were taken in the early 1940s. They echo the then current influence of modernism in commercial photography and the new directions it was taking after the war. They present sharply focused subjects, softly modelled and highlighted with grand architectural geometric in the background.<ref name=hall />
==Death== Donald died in Sydney on 28 August 2005, at the age of 82.<ref name="wr"/>
==See also== * Olive Cotton
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