They were offered to the public as part of an auction of significant sporting memorabilia in Sydney over 20 years ago.    Together with three cycling friends, six-time Tour de France competitor and Atlanta Olympian, Stephen Hodge, successfully bid for the most significant collection in the auction, 41 photographs of the 1930 Tour de France recorded as silver halide positives on glass ‘lanterns’ used for projection.

These photographs cover every imaginable terrain, condition and aspect of one of the hardest sporting events in the world.

A selection of these archival, historic photographic prints have been reproduced at a size of 58 cm x 60 cm and are a limited edition.  They were extensively digitally repaired and reproduced by Digital Art Directory; printed to artist watercolour paper with pigment ink and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.  

Signed by Stephen Hodge and blind embossed, each photograph has been extensively researched to find out who the cyclists were, and in what section of the 1930’s Tour de France they were captured!

The winners, the losers, the injured and the exhausted. From the coast to the mountains, the photos from Hubert Opperman’s estate are a landmark collection of cycling history available to own and display in your home or office.

They can be directly purchased online from cyclinghistory.com.au