Bondi Christmas
1984. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, signed and dated in pencil verso, 28 x 38cm. Minor crease to lower margin. Born in Maryland, USA, Jon Lewis is a self-taught photographer. “He spent the early years of his career working as a social photographer and film maker, living with artists like Martin Sharp, Brett Whiteley and George Gittoes in the Yellow House in Potts Point [NSW]. He was a founding member of Greenpeace, and his early film Dolphin Dreamin is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. In 1984 he began taking the first of his many photographs of people on Bondi Beach, which were exhibited in Paris and toured between 1989 and 1993. SBS made a documentary about his work in 1990...[Writer and photographer] Robert McFarlane has written that Lewis is ‘the burr under the saddle of Australian photography’ because of his insistence on a pure, rather than a conceptual, approach to the medium.” Ref: NPG.
Item #CL195-103
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