1950s Australia
1960s Australia
1970s Australia
1980s Australia
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Australian Photography
Australian realism
Author_Stephen Zagala
Carol Jerrems
Category=AJF
documentary photography
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film photography
Jeff Carter
Judo Gemes
Max Dupain
photo journalism
Rennie Ellis
William Yang
Product details
- ISBN 9781742236926
- Dimensions: 200 x 260mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2024
- Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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Australian documentary photography was at its height from the 1950s to 1970s. A time of great flux – social, political and cultural – was reflected in the photographs of Max Dupain, Carol Jerrems, William Yang, Rennie Ellis, David Moore, Mervyn Bishop, Sue Ford and others. A time when the gritty documentary photography that emerged in the US after World War II, hand-held film cameras, instamatic colour film, Polaroid cameras and the arrival of television all pushed photography in a revolutionary new direction. Imagining a Real Australia is a stunning testament to a time when photographers turned their lenses on real people living real lives.
Stephen Zagala has curated more than 60 exhibitions including 'Bill Henson shuffles the deck', Museum of Australian Photography 2014; 'Tracey Moffatt: Narratives', Art Gallery of South Australia 2011 (with Maria Zagala) and 'Afterglow: performance art and photography', Museum of Australian Photography 2011. He was principle curator at the Museum of Australian Photography between 2006 and 2017, and a research fellow at the South Australian Museum between 2017 and 2024.
