Sam Hood

Samuel John Hood (20 August 1872 – 8 June 1953) was an Australian photographer and photojournalist born in South Australia whose career spanned from the 1880s to the 1950s.

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

Press photography increasingly came to dominate his business, and in 1934 he joined the Labor Daily for a short time as a full-time photographer, engaging other staff to look after his studio.

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.

A number of photographers worked for Dalny Studio: some of these include Ernie Bowen, Gus Daley, Jack Lazern, Lethington Maitland as well as Sam's own children Gladys and Ted.

Hood outside his "Dalny Studios", 124 Pitt Street, Sydney, 1953 (taken three weeks before his death)
A soldier's goodbye, with Bobby the cat. Photo by Sam Hood ca. 1942.
Acrobats, Sydney, 1930s Sam Hood (Possibly John M. Hendry, bodybuilder and physical culture writer.)
Union Hotel built circa 1933 & remodelled 1939 along Pacific highway.