In Dreams: Thirty Years Of Photography
1960s/1990. Collection of 50 images consisting of 49 silver gelatin photographs and one C-type photograph, all annotated, titled, dated and signed in ink verso, sizes range from 26.5 x 40.7cm to 40.3 x 30.4cm. Slight soiling, indentations and surface loss to edges. All images in this collection are illustrated in the exhibition catalogue In Dreams: Mervyn Bishop – Thirty Years Of Photography 1960-1990, The Australian Centre for Photography, 1991. This major survey of Bishop’s work was curated by Tracey Moffatt and toured for over ten years. A detailed list of Bishop’s photography is available upon request. Australian news and documentary photographer Mervyn Bishop joined the Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet in 1963, being the first Aboriginal Australian to work on a metropolitan daily newspaper and one of the first Aboriginal Australians to become a professional photographer. In 1971, four years after completing his cadetship, he was named Australian Press Photographer of the Year. Bishop is a member of the Murri people. Ref: Wiki.
Item #CL178-20
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