Item #CL191-50 Warning Sign, 30kms From Maningrida, NT. Mervyn Bishop, b.1945 Aust.
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Warning Sign, 30kms From Maningrida, NT

1974/1990. Silver gelatin photograph, captioned, dated and signed in pencil verso, 30.1 x 40.2cm. Minor creases.

The sign reads “Do not take picture with camer. If someone take it? The law said, please, when coming in here, take only the park painting, no money, but someone else body is ten dollars and countrie is eleven dollars. This is going all over the world to white men and blacks.” Illustrated in Bishop, In Dreams: Thirty Years of Photography 1960-1990, ACP, 1991, p64.

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Item #CL191-50

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