Candid Photographs from 1950s-1970s at the Art Gallery of South Australia
May 30, 2010 by All Art News
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ADELAIDE.- Candid moments of Australian life from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, captured by some of Australia’s most renowned photographers, go on display in Candid Camera – a fascinating new photographic exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Curated by Julie Robinson, the Art Gallery’s Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s – 1970s includes more than 80 documentary images by photographers including Max Dupain, David Moore, Jeff Carter, Robert McFarlane, Mervyn Bishop, Rennie [...]
Art Gallery of New South Wales Exhibition Focuses on Six Photographers
December 31, 2009 by All Art News
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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 [...]