Art Gallery of New South Wales Exhibition Focuses on Six Photographers

SYDNEY.- In May 1955 a group of six Australian photographers showed some 200 photographs in an exhibition held at David Jones Gallery in Sydney. The artists were Gordon Andrews, Max Dupain, Kerry Dundas, Hal Missingham, Axel Poignant and David Potts. It was a key exhibition in representing a shift away from the traditions of pictorialism to the recording of contemporary life. These photographers were not overtly politically, but primarily engaged with the documentary mode for the fresh approach and vision [...]