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== Clientele == |
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The Agency's photographs were published in numerous books, newspapers<ref>''The Age'', Saturday, March 30, 1985</ref> and magazines<ref name=":0">Yvette Steinhauer, 'Click go the shutters,' in ''The Age Good Weekend''22 Jul 1988, p.84–90</ref> including ''[[The Sunday Times Magazine]]'', ''[[The Observer|The Observer Magazine]]'' (UK), ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]'', ''[[Der Spiegel]]'', ''[[GEO (magazine)|GEO]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Newsweek]]'' and ''[[National Geographic]]'', and also on Australian postage stamps and first-day issues, and in the mid-80s they provided the first photographic station identification imagery for the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|Australian Broadcasting Commission]] comprising 11 for each state & territory. Wildlight became an associate agency of [[Australian Associated Press]] (AAP),<ref>{{Citation | author1=Shrivastava, K. M | title=News agencies from pigeon to internet | publication-date=2007 | page=116 | publisher=New Dawn Press | isbn=978-1-932705-67-6 }}</ref> contributing to its extensive stock photography library.<ref>{{Citation | author1=American Society of Magazine Photographers | title=ASMP stock photography handbook | publication-date=1990 | publisher=ASMP | edition=2nd ed | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/216294393 | accessdate=15 February 2020 }}</ref> |
The Agency's photographs were published in numerous books, newspapers<ref>''The Age'', Saturday, March 30, 1985</ref> and magazines<ref name=":0">Yvette Steinhauer, 'Click go the shutters,' in ''The Age Good Weekend''22 Jul 1988, p.84–90</ref> including ''[[The Sunday Times Magazine]]'', ''[[The Observer|The Observer Magazine]]'' (UK), ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]'', ''[[Der Spiegel]]'', ''[[GEO (magazine)|GEO]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Newsweek]]'' and ''[[National Geographic]]'', and also appeared in Australian publications and on Australian postage stamps and first-day issues. The [[Tourism Australia|Australian Tourist Commission]] used their imagery,<ref>{{Citation | author1=Australian Tourist Commission | title=ATC Offices http://www.aussie.net.au. (30 June 1996) | journal=Annual report | publication-date=1996-06-30 | publisher=Commonwealth Govt. Print. Office | issue=216 of 1996 | pages=63 | issn=0728-7143 }}</ref> and in the mid-80s they provided the first photographic station identification imagery for the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|Australian Broadcasting Commission]] comprising 11 for each state & territory. Wildlight became an associate agency of [[Australian Associated Press]] (AAP),<ref>{{Citation | author1=Shrivastava, K. M | title=News agencies from pigeon to internet | publication-date=2007 | page=116 | publisher=New Dawn Press | isbn=978-1-932705-67-6 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20050614072249/http://aap.com.au/company-updates.asp|title=14 Jun 2005 - About AAP - Archived Website|website=Trove|language=en|access-date=2020-02-15}}</ref> contributing to its extensive stock photography library.<ref>{{Citation | author1=American Society of Magazine Photographers | title=ASMP stock photography handbook | publication-date=1990 | publisher=ASMP | edition=2nd ed | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/216294393 | accessdate=15 February 2020 }}</ref> |
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== Exikon == |
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The agency, as a photographers' cooperative, was wound up on December 13, 2013, but the image collection is maintained by Andrew Stephenson,<ref>{{Citation | author1=Parker, B. (Brian), 1938- | title=Geography for Australian citizens | page=38 | date=2000 | publisher=Macmillan Education Australia | isbn=978-0-7329-6339-2 }}</ref><ref name=":1" /> who, from 2000 when the digital age took hold, had been picture editor and photographers' agent at Wildlight and responsible for managing the analogue collection and its amalgamation with a growing digital image library, selection for clients, electronic dispatch, and for shifting the business online. As manager of Exikon Pty. Ltd. in [[Redfern, New South Wales|Redfern]], in 2003 he took over the picture library from Wildlight,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20080719181943/http://www.wildlight.com.au/wild/about/about.php|title=20 Jul 2008 - Wildlight {{!}} Real Australia in Pictures - Archived Website|website=Trove|language=en|access-date=2020-02-15}}</ref> which he now operates with Ikosol, a specialist firm in digital asset management. As of 2020, former Wildlight manager Phil Quirk is archiving its assets. |
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Revision as of 22:26, 15 February 2020
Wildlight was an Australian photo agency operating from the 1980s and specialising in imagery of that country.
Establishment
Founders Phil Quirk and Carolyn Johns met as photographers on Rick Smolan's A Day in the Life of Australia project during 1981–2,[1][2] through which they met many influential and outstanding photographers with many attached to photo agencies and which prompted the idea of starting their own. Johns and Quirk, with Christina De Water, in discussions with these international photographers as they passed through Sydney on their way to assignments, realised an Australian agency could offer similar and better services to international magazines and publishers. In 1984 they met with Oliver Strewe about forming such a cooperative, and in 1985 Wildlight Photo Agency opened at 165 Hastings Parade Bond Beach, which was owned by George Carpenter a retired Sydney barrow man, where they stayed for 10 years. Subsequent offices included 87 Gloucester Street, The Rocks, then finally Suite 14, 16 Charles St., Redfern.[3]
Photographers
The Wildlight team comprised Christina De Water, Manager; Photo Editors Rachael Knefper, joined in 1986 by Annette Cruger; while photographers were Carolyn Johns, Oliver Strewe and Philip Quirk joined later in 1985 by photographer Grenville Turner.[4] Other photographers connected as its reputation spread, among them Mark Lang, Jason Busch, Peter Solness, Lorrie Graham, Milton Wordley, and Ben Bohane, while David Moore's and Rennie Ellis’ colour archives were represented by Wildlight. Its offices welcomed visits from US photographers Gregory Heisler, Arnold Newman, Jay Maisel and UK magazine designer & art director, John Tennant.
Australian identity
An early promotional campaign pitched the agency as "the place for Real Australia in Pictures” and its business focused on promoting the character of the country. Over 1986/7 when global attention was being focused on Australia for its 1988 Bicentenary, Christina De Water traveled to show the photographers' portfolios to magazine editors in the UK, Germany, France, then the US, with an immediate response which boosted assignments for the agency's photographers. IBM commissioned a book[5] illustrated by the four original members and in conjunction with a film of the same name directed by Brian Morris.[4]
From 1990–2003 Quirk was Wildlight's managing director. As part of the agency's activities between 1997 - 2001 he managed and published Australian Faces & Places Diary, a showcase of Australian reportage & documentary photography of exclusively black-and-white imagery printed in warm duo-tone.[6]
Clientele
The Agency's photographs were published in numerous books, newspapers[7] and magazines[4] including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer Magazine (UK), Stern, Der Spiegel, GEO, Time, Newsweek and National Geographic, and also appeared in Australian publications and on Australian postage stamps and first-day issues. The Australian Tourist Commission used their imagery,[8] and in the mid-80s they provided the first photographic station identification imagery for the Australian Broadcasting Commission comprising 11 for each state & territory. Wildlight became an associate agency of Australian Associated Press (AAP),[9][10] contributing to its extensive stock photography library.[11]
Exikon
The agency, as a photographers' cooperative, was wound up on December 13, 2013, but the image collection is maintained by Andrew Stephenson,[12][10] who, from 2000 when the digital age took hold, had been picture editor and photographers' agent at Wildlight and responsible for managing the analogue collection and its amalgamation with a growing digital image library, selection for clients, electronic dispatch, and for shifting the business online. As manager of Exikon Pty. Ltd. in Redfern, in 2003 he took over the picture library from Wildlight,[13] which he now operates with Ikosol, a specialist firm in digital asset management. As of 2020, former Wildlight manager Phil Quirk is archiving its assets.
References
- ^ "A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AUSTRALIA". The Australian Women's Weekly. Australia, Australia. 18 November 1981. p. 1 (A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AUSTRALIA). Retrieved 15 February 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ Park, Andy; Smolan, Rick (1981), A day in the life of Australia, A Day in the life of Australia Pty Ltd, ISBN 978-0-9594244-0-9
- ^ Poehner, Donna (2008), 2009 photographer's market : where & how to sell your photographs, Writer's Digest ; Newton Abbot : David & Charles [distributor], ISBN 978-1-58297-546-7
- ^ a b c Yvette Steinhauer, 'Click go the shutters,' in The Age Good Weekend22 Jul 1988, p.84–90
- ^ Morris, Brian; Wildlight Photo Agency (1988), Australia take a bow : the life, landscape and people, John Ferguson in association with Angus & Robertson, ISBN 978-0-949118-31-8
- ^ 'Mono Log,' in The Age, Saturday 06 Dec 1997, p.289
- ^ The Age, Saturday, March 30, 1985
- ^ Australian Tourist Commission (1996-06-30), "ATC Offices http://www.aussie.net.au. (30 June 1996)", Annual report (216 of 1996), Commonwealth Govt. Print. Office: 63, ISSN 0728-7143
- ^ Shrivastava, K. M (2007), News agencies from pigeon to internet, New Dawn Press, p. 116, ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6
- ^ a b "14 Jun 2005 - About AAP - Archived Website". Trove. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
- ^ American Society of Magazine Photographers (1990), ASMP stock photography handbook (2nd ed ed.), ASMP, retrieved 15 February 2020
{{citation}}:|edition=has extra text (help) - ^ Parker, B. (Brian), 1938- (2000), Geography for Australian citizens, Macmillan Education Australia, p. 38, ISBN 978-0-7329-6339-2
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "20 Jul 2008 - Wildlight | Real Australia in Pictures - Archived Website". Trove. Retrieved 2020-02-15.