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Issue No.5 December 1979 is headed by McGillivray and Nickson's editorial, and includes articles '...A Not So New Non Silver Process' by ‘the Editors’; 'China Cheesecake'; 'On the Subject of [[John Szarkowski]]' by A.D. Coleman; 'Pictures, Words and History' by Jozef Gross; 'Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of representation)' by Allan Sekula; and Ian Cosier 'An Australian Photographic Data Base: A Research Resource'.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Cosier, Ian | title=An Australian photographic data base: a research resource | journal=Australian Photography Conference | publication-date=1977 | issue=1977: University of Sydney | pages=20-23 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/39217047 | accessdate=25 February 2020 }}</ref> |
Issue No.5 December 1979 is headed by McGillivray and Nickson's editorial, and includes articles '...A Not So New Non Silver Process' by ‘the Editors’; 'China Cheesecake'; 'On the Subject of [[John Szarkowski]]' by A.D. Coleman; 'Pictures, Words and History' by Jozef Gross; 'Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of representation)' by Allan Sekula; and Ian Cosier 'An Australian Photographic Data Base: A Research Resource'.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Cosier, Ian | title=An Australian photographic data base: a research resource | journal=Australian Photography Conference | publication-date=1977 | issue=1977: University of Sydney | pages=20-23 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/39217047 | accessdate=25 February 2020 }}</ref> |
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Issue No.8 included Johansen's investigation of German photographer of Australian indigenous people, [[J.W. Lindt|J. W. Lindt]].<ref>{{Citation|author1=Johanson, Graeme|title=J. W. Lindt (1845–1926)|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/39203083|journal=WOPOP: Working Papers on Photography|issue=8|pages=19-20|publication-date=1981|accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref> |
Issue No.8 included Johansen's investigation of German photographer of Australian indigenous people, [[J.W. Lindt|J. W. Lindt]].<ref>{{Citation|author1=Johanson, Graeme|title=J. W. Lindt (1845–1926)|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/39203083|journal=WOPOP: Working Papers on Photography|issue=8|pages=19-20|publication-date=1981|accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref><ref>Jane Lydon. (2016) Transmuting Australian Aboriginal photographs. World Art 6:1, pages 45-60.</ref><ref>Catherine de Lorenzo, Deborah van der Plaat. (2006) Southern Geographies and the Domestication of Science in the Photography of J.W. Lindt. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 7:1, pages 143-166.</ref> |
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Issue No.9 contained, amongst other articles, Nick Lottkowitz, 'Conservation and restoration, some chemical thoughts.'<ref>Lottkowitz, N. Conservation and restoration, some chemical thoughts. WOPOP/Working Papers on Photography, 9(9), 61-63.</ref> |
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== Cessation == |
== Cessation == |
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Revision as of 00:33, 27 February 2020
WOPOP: Working Papers on Photography was a short-lived non-profit academic photography journal irregularly published in nine issues between 1978 and 1983, which developed from a 1977 conference in Sydney and incorporated the proceedings of a later conference in Melbourne. It contributed research to the emerging field of photography history and historiography in Australia and exposed readers to significant international experts in the field.
Background
In September 1977, amidst increasing interest in the medium and establishment of public collections, at the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) that had been officially opened by Margaret Whitlam in November 1974, Wayne Hooper of Sydney University convened a conference 'Photography in Australia'Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). and set up a committee of members interested in the history of the medium.[1][2]
Establishment
In December 1977, the Sydney conference delegates joined Euan McGillivray and Matthew Nickson in proposing, and then establishing, a journal WOPOP: Working Papers on Photography. From a terrace house at 20 Wellington Street, Richmond, in Melbourne, McGillivray and Nickson edited and irregularly published nine numbers of the staple-bound journal between 1978 and 1983. In 1980, when McGillivray was employed as curator at the Science Museum, they published proceedings of a follow-up conference convened by the journal over September 19–21, 1980 at Prahran College where the pair had studied under Athol Shmith and John Cato.
Ethos
WOPOP adopted a Marxist perspective, proclaiming that it would "consider photography as a medium of communication as well as an art form,” with a "focus…on the social usage of photography as on the images themselves,” by “drawing on sociology, history, literature, politics, aesthetics, anthropology and linguistics."[1][3]
Contents
Amongst its contents the journal reported on research in progress and listed the grants for photographic research, practice and display available from the Australia Council. When local content was not available it reprinted essays from international commentators including John Berger, A. D. Coleman, J.C. Sherer and Allan Sekula
The contents of WOPOP Issue No.1 of 1978 included an editorial by Euan McGillivray and Matthew Nickson, and articles; "John Heartfield" by Matthew Nickson; "Futurology & Photography" by Graeme Johanson (Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria); "LaTrobe Library Picture Collection" by Jenny Carew (acting Picture Librarian, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria); "Sontag on Photography" by Ann-Marie Willis;[4] "Silver" by Matthew Nickson; "A Constitution Lost" by Ann-Marie Willis; "Australian Women Photographers" by Jenni Mather.[5]
Issue No.5 December 1979 is headed by McGillivray and Nickson's editorial, and includes articles '...A Not So New Non Silver Process' by ‘the Editors’; 'China Cheesecake'; 'On the Subject of John Szarkowski' by A.D. Coleman; 'Pictures, Words and History' by Jozef Gross; 'Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of representation)' by Allan Sekula; and Ian Cosier 'An Australian Photographic Data Base: A Research Resource'.[6]
Issue No.8 included Johansen's investigation of German photographer of Australian indigenous people, J. W. Lindt.[7][8][9]
Issue No.9 contained, amongst other articles, Nick Lottkowitz, 'Conservation and restoration, some chemical thoughts.'[10]
Cessation
Finding suitable content for the journal required considerable and far-reaching research, and led to new interests for the editors; on reading Carroll Hart's 'The New Documentation: Oral History and Photography',[11] Nickson, who with McGillivray was then becoming interested in the planning and execution of historical photograph preservation, wrote to the author on January 1, 1983, about her involvement in the project 'Vanishing Georgia'.[12][13] WOPOP ceased publication that year with issue 9 when McGillivray and Nickson moved on to inaugurate the Museum of Victoria’s Outreach Project in 1985 with the ambition to compile a national archive of Australian documentary, vernacular and historically significant photographs up to 1939, the centenary of the Daguerreotype. To do so, the pair issued a call for Australians: "to sit down with your family, look through your collection of photographs and select those which you and your family think should be included in the heritage of Australia," requesting specifically photographs of “members of your family at work, play, or engaged in leisure time activities…”.[14]
Legacy
Several Australian contributors to WOPOP: Working Papers on Photography, especially Ann-Marie Willis[4] who provided several of its articles, Jenni Mather[15] and Graeme Johanson[16] went on to publish books of substantial photo-historical research, and Jenny Carew's articles for other journals treated historical subjects.[17][18]
References
- ^ a b Wayne Hooper, "Some Thoughts on What We Are on about and How We Might Go about It," unpublished manuscript [ early 1978 ], [p. 1 ].
- ^ Catherine De Lorenzo, 'Agency and Authorship in Australian Photo Histories', in Sheehan, Tanya, 1976- (2015), Photography, history, difference, Hanover, New Hampshire Dartmouth College Press, ISBN 978-1-61168-647-0
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Kurt Brereton, 'Photo Discourse: Critical Theory and Practice in Australia,' in McDonald, Ewen; Annear, Judy; Art Gallery of New South Wales; University of Technology, Sydney. Transforming Cultures Research Group (2000), What is this thing called photography? : Australian photography 1975-1985, Pluto Press, ISBN 978-1-86403-161-4
- ^ a b Willis, Anne-Marie (1988), Picturing Australia : a history of photography, Angus & Robertson, ISBN 978-0-207-15599-4
- ^ Australian Galleries Directors' Council; Hall, Barbara, 1946-, (author.); Mather, Jenni, 1946-, (author.); Gillespie, Christine, 1944-, (author.); Australian Gallery Directors Council, (sponsoring body.); Australian Centre for Photography, (sponsoring body.); Australia Council. Visual Arts Board, (sponsoring body.); George Paton Gallery, (host institution.) (1981), Australian women photographers, 1890–1950, George Paton Gallery, ISBN 978-0-9597254-7-6
{{citation}}:|author2=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Cosier, Ian (1977), "An Australian photographic data base: a research resource", Australian Photography Conference (1977: University of Sydney): 20–23, retrieved 25 February 2020
- ^ Johanson, Graeme (1981), "J. W. Lindt (1845–1926)", WOPOP: Working Papers on Photography (8): 19–20, retrieved 25 February 2020
- ^ Jane Lydon. (2016) Transmuting Australian Aboriginal photographs. World Art 6:1, pages 45-60.
- ^ Catherine de Lorenzo, Deborah van der Plaat. (2006) Southern Geographies and the Domestication of Science in the Photography of J.W. Lindt. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 7:1, pages 143-166.
- ^ Lottkowitz, N. Conservation and restoration, some chemical thoughts. WOPOP/Working Papers on Photography, 9(9), 61-63.
- ^ Hart, Carroll, ‘The New Documentation: Oral History and Photography,’ in Drexel Library Quarterly 15. no.4, October 1979, 5-11
- ^ Matthew Nickson to Carroll Hart, letter, January 15, 1983, RG 4-1-20-Box 125, Georgia Archives.
- ^ Frazier, R. K., Garrison, E., Jakeman, R. J., & Grimsley, R. (2010). Vanishing Georgia Photographic Collection: The discovery of Georgia's historical photographs and the expansion of public access.
- ^ Bate, Weston; McGillivray, Euan; Nickson, Matthew (1986), Private lives – public heritage : family snapshots as history, Hutchinson Australia
- ^ Australian Galleries Directors' Council; Hall, Barbara, 1946-, (author.); Mather, Jenni, 1946-, (author.); Gillespie, Christine, 1944-, (author.); Australian Gallery Directors Council, (sponsoring body.); Australian Centre for Photography, (sponsoring body.); Australia Council. Visual Arts Board, (sponsoring body.); George Paton Gallery, (host institution.) (1981), Australian women photographers, 1890–1950, George Paton Gallery, ISBN 978-0-9597254-7-6
{{citation}}:|author2=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Johanson, Graeme (1974), Victoria through the lens : an exhibition of early photographs in the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria, retrieved 25 February 2020
- ^ Carew, Jenny (1981), "Photographs and history", Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine (56): 17–21, ISSN 0312-2654
- ^ Carew, Jenny (1999), "Richard Daintree: photographs as history", History of Photography, 23 (2): 157–162, ISSN 0308-7298