Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil Into Hand Of Traditional Land Owner (Gurindji) Vincent Lingiari (Wattle Creek), Northern Territory
1975/2013. Digital c-type photograph, signed, dated and titled in ink verso, 120 x 120cm. Framed. Also available in a smaller silver gelatin photograph, 39.9 x 27.4cm. Illustrated on page 81, In Dreams. Mervyn Bishop: Thirty Years of Photography, 1960-1990. Held in AGNSW, NGA. Bishop commenced a four year photography cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963 (where he worked for seventeen years), becoming Australia’s first Aboriginal press photographer. He was commissioned by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to document this historic event of handing back the land to the Indigenous people. This picture was shot in colour and then converted to black-and-white for publishing purposes. Only a few prints were made by Bishop before 1991 when he returned to his negatives to print for his touring show In Dreams.
Item #CL179-92
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