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== Exhibitions == |
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Solo or group exhibitions at the Gallery presented photographers Jennifer Aitken, Lynn Bender, Robert Besanko, [[Édouard Boubat|Edouard Boubat]], Warren Breninger, Wynn Bullock, Marcus Bunyan, Francis Busby, Jeff Busby, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, [[Jack Cato]], [[John Cato]], [[Larry Clark]], William Clift, Christine Cornish, [[John Divola]], [[Rennie Ellis]], [[William Eggleston]], [[Franco Fontana]], [[Oliver Gagliani]], [[Ralph Gibson]], Christine Godden, Michael Goldsmith, |
Solo or group exhibitions at the Gallery presented photographers Jennifer Aitken, Lynn Bender, Robert Besanko (1978),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eastgatejarman.com.au/artists/robert-besanko/|title=Robert Besanko|website=Eastgate Jarman|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> [[Édouard Boubat|Edouard Boubat]], Warren Breninger (1983, 1987, 1997,1998),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://warrenbreninger.com.au/exhibitions.html|title=Warren Breninger - Exhibitions|website=warrenbreninger.com.au|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> [[Wynn Bullock]] (1977),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wynnbullockphotography.com/exhibition_history.html|title=Wynn Bullock - SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND DATES|website=www.wynnbullockphotography.com|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> Marcus Bunyan, Francis Busby (1984), Jeff Busby, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, [[Jack Cato]], [[John Cato]], [[Larry Clark]], William Clift, Christine Cornish, [[John Divola]], [[Rennie Ellis]] (1996, 1995),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rennieellis.com.au/rennie-ellis/exhibitions|title=Exhibitions (1971–2003)|website=www.rennieellis.com.au|language=en|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> [[William Eggleston]], [[Franco Fontana]], [[Oliver Gagliani]], [[Ralph Gibson]] (1977),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://olinda.com/Thesis/Text/milestones.htm|title=Milestones in the history of photographic practice in Australia|last=|first=|date=|website=olinda.com|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> Christine Godden (1978),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.christinegodden.com.au/exhibitions.htm|title=Christine Godden - Exhibitions|website=www.christinegodden.com.au|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> Michael Goldsmith (1994, 1997), Marion Hardman, Paul Hill, Paul Hopper, [[Eikoh Hosoe]], [[Graham Howe]], [[Carol Jerrems]] (1975, 1978),<ref>Helen Ennis, 'Jerrems, Carol Joyce (1949–1980)'. In ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 14, (MUP), 1996</ref> Christopher Koller, Jean-Marc Le Péchoux, Peter Leiss, Ian Lobb, Steven Lojewski, Rod McNicol, [[Duane Michals]], [[Joel Meyerowitz]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://amp.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/beauty-shines-through-ground-zero-destruction-20020703-gducxa.html|title=Beauty shines through Ground Zero destruction|website=amp.theage.com.au|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> [[Lisette Model]], Boone Morrison, [[Eliot Porter]], [[August Sander]], [[Aaron Siskind]], Ingeborg Tyssen, Greg Wayn, [[Brett Weston]], Les Walkling,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.olinda.com/Thesis/Text/individuals.html|title=Untitled Document|website=www.olinda.com|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> and Konrad Winkler. |
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During 1986 [[Phillip Institute of Technology|Phillip Institute]] Media students curated shows at The Photographers’ Gallery and Workshop of [[Emmet Gowin]] (April 3-27),<ref>{{Cite book|title=Photography and Australia|author1=Ennis, Helen|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1-86189-323-9|publication-date=2007|page=115}}</ref> [[John Gollings]] (May 1-25), Reece Vogel (June 5-29), [[Nicholas Nixon]] (July 31-August 24) and an Australian Group Show (July 3-27).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=67732|title=Emmet Gowin Photographer's Gallery, Melbourne|last=Unknown|website=Item held by National Gallery of Australia|access-date=2019-09-23}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:44, 23 September 2019
The Photographers Gallery and Workshop (1973–2015) was a photography gallery established in South Yarra, a suburb of Melbourne, and which ran almost continuously for forty-two years.
History
The Photographers Gallery and Workshop was founded in 1973 at 344 Punt Road, South Yarra by Paul Cox, Ingeborg Tyssen, John F. Williams and Rod McNicoll.[1] It was the second gallery devoted to photography to be established in the city after Brummels Gallery, which was started in 1972 less than a kilometre away.[2]
Ian Lobb,[3][4][5] an Australian born in 1948, who had undertaken workshops with Ansel Adams and Paul Caponigro,[2] took over the Gallery in late 1974.[6] Also that year, Lobb was teaching photography at Coburg Technical School with Carol Jerrems,[7] and they met American Bill Heimerman (born January 13, 1950) who was teaching Englsh at the same institution; the two inspired his interest in photography. Lobb mounted his first exhibition as director at the beginning of 1975. He and Heimerman became co-directors of the gallery from the beginning of 1976. Both financially supported their roles through teaching, Heimerman being next employed at Brighton Technical College, where he and other staff members established a photography program, and then at the Council of Adult Education.
Lobb and Heimerman showed some local work, but pursued high quality international, mainly American and some European, photographers for exhibitions.[8] The first exhibition of international photography at the gallery was that of Paul Caponigro in 1975 which sold 22 prints, after which success the gallery was closed for renovations and while Heimerman made a trip to the US to secure more shows.
Ethos
By showcasing ‘the fine print’ Lobb and Heimerman hoped to improve Australian work by example,[9] as Lobb observed, "From 1975, every second show was an international show [. . .][10] The initial philosophy was simply to let people see the physical difference between the production of prints overseas and locally.”[9] In a period when feminist photography was on the ascendant, the gallery's emphasis on the "American West Coast 'fine print' tradition" rather than subject matter, and its preponderance of male exhibitors, was decried by Australian women photographers as "technocratic and patriarchal."[11]
By 1977 Heimerman and Lobb organised the first workshop to be conducted in Australia by an American photographer, Ralph Gibson, and sponsored visits by William Clift and Harry Callahan, before lan Lobb left to pursue his own photography later that year.
Exhibitions
Solo or group exhibitions at the Gallery presented photographers Jennifer Aitken, Lynn Bender, Robert Besanko (1978),[12] Edouard Boubat, Warren Breninger (1983, 1987, 1997,1998),[13] Wynn Bullock (1977),[14] Marcus Bunyan, Francis Busby (1984), Jeff Busby, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Jack Cato, John Cato, Larry Clark, William Clift, Christine Cornish, John Divola, Rennie Ellis (1996, 1995),[15] William Eggleston, Franco Fontana, Oliver Gagliani, Ralph Gibson (1977),[16] Christine Godden (1978),[17] Michael Goldsmith (1994, 1997), Marion Hardman, Paul Hill, Paul Hopper, Eikoh Hosoe, Graham Howe, Carol Jerrems (1975, 1978),[18] Christopher Koller, Jean-Marc Le Péchoux, Peter Leiss, Ian Lobb, Steven Lojewski, Rod McNicol, Duane Michals, Joel Meyerowitz,[19] Lisette Model, Boone Morrison, Eliot Porter, August Sander, Aaron Siskind, Ingeborg Tyssen, Greg Wayn, Brett Weston, Les Walkling,[20] and Konrad Winkler.
During 1986 Phillip Institute Media students curated shows at The Photographers’ Gallery and Workshop of Emmet Gowin (April 3-27),[21] John Gollings (May 1-25), Reece Vogel (June 5-29), Nicholas Nixon (July 31-August 24) and an Australian Group Show (July 3-27).[22]
Closure
The gallery was closed and sold in 2015,[23] and after a period of failing health, Bill Heimerman died on October 1, 2018.[10][24]
References
- ^ Del Favero, Dennis; Bennett, Jill, 1963-; Sprengel Museum Hannover; Ivan Dougherty Gallery; Galerie Andreas Binder; Mori Gallery; LC Collection (Library of Congress) (2004). Dennis Del Favero fantasmi. UNSW Press. ISBN 978-0-86840-558-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Geoff Strong, 'The Melbourne Movement: fashion and faction in the 1970s'. In Bennett, David; Agee, Joyce; Victorian Centre for Photography (1988), The thousand mile stare : a photographic exhibition, The Victorian Centre for Photography Inc, ISBN 978-0-7316-2054-8
- ^ Crombie, Isobel; Byron, Sandra; National Gallery of Victoria (1990), Twenty contemporary Australian photographers : from the Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, ISBN 978-0-7241-0142-9
- ^ Lobb, Ian (1900), [Ian Lobb : Art & Artist Files (Australia and New Zealand)], retrieved 23 September 2019
- ^ "Ian LOBB | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Australian National Gallery; Crombie, Isobel; Davidson, Kate; Ennis, Helen (1987), Living in the 70s : Australian photographs, Gallery 11, 13 June to 13 September 1987, The Gallery, retrieved 23 September 2019
- ^ www.bibliopolis.com. "Bill And Ian by Carol Jerrems, Aust on Josef Lebovic Gallery". Josef Lebovic Gallery. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Robert Deane, 'FOREIGN INFLUENCES iN AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY 1930-80', A lecture delivered at APSCON, National Gallery of Australia 10th October 2000, Canberra
- ^ a b "Timeline | Curating Photography". Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ a b Tony Perry, ‘Australia: Longing for a photographic identity’. In Print Letter No.25 Jan/Feb. 1980 Vol 5 N0.1 p.8- 9
- ^ Joyce Agee, 'Introduction'. In Bennett, David; Agee, Joyce; Victorian Centre for Photography (1988), The thousand mile stare : a photographic exhibition, The Victorian Centre for Photography Inc, ISBN 978-0-7316-2054-8
- ^ "Robert Besanko". Eastgate Jarman. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Warren Breninger - Exhibitions". warrenbreninger.com.au. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Wynn Bullock - SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND DATES". www.wynnbullockphotography.com. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Exhibitions (1971–2003)". www.rennieellis.com.au. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Milestones in the history of photographic practice in Australia". olinda.com. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Christine Godden - Exhibitions". www.christinegodden.com.au. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Helen Ennis, 'Jerrems, Carol Joyce (1949–1980)'. In Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, (MUP), 1996
- ^ "Beauty shines through Ground Zero destruction". amp.theage.com.au. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Untitled Document". www.olinda.com. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Ennis, Helen (2007). Photography and Australia. Reaktion Books. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-86189-323-9.
- ^ Unknown. "Emmet Gowin Photographer's Gallery, Melbourne". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "344 Punt Road, South Yarra VIC 3141". realestateVIEW.com.au. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Bradley, Louise (2018-01-30). "Photographer brought excellence to gallery". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2019-09-23.