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==Career==
==Career==
In 1959 Beal was living in Sydney and freelancing as a photographer for magazines including'' [[Pix (magazine)|Pix]]'',<ref>'Around the clubs,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 14 Sep 1962, p.14</ref> for which he produced pin-ups.<ref>Eve Konrads. Beach Pix, Melbourne, 18 July 1959 / Photographs by David Beal</ref> During travel in Indonesia, in 1960 he interviewed and photographed [[Sukarno]] for a story for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'',<ref>David Beal, 'We will have West N. Guinea,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday 30 October 1960, p.86</ref> From 1962 to 1971 his photographs appeared regularly in ''[[Walkabout (magazine)|Walkabout]]''. He produced photographs with a critical perspective on Australian provincialism, drinking habits and sun-worship,<ref>H. G. Kippax, 'The world's most suburban people,' in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Saturday, 02 Sep 1967, p.19</ref> for the publication ''Southern Exposure'' (1967) in collaboration with social commentator and journalist [[Donald Horne]]. Of the book, in 2019 Dr Douglas Hassall remarked that;
In 1959 Beal was living in Sydney and freelancing as a photographer for magazines including'' [[Pix (magazine)|Pix]]'',<ref>'Around the clubs,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 14 Sep 1962, p.14</ref> for which he produced pin-ups.<ref>Eve Konrads. Beach Pix, Melbourne, 18 July 1959 / Photographs by David Beal</ref> During travel in Indonesia, in 1960 he interviewed and photographed [[Sukarno]] for a story for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'',<ref>David Beal, 'We will have West N. Guinea,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday 30 October 1960, p.86</ref> From 1962 to 1971 his photographs appeared regularly in ''[[Walkabout (magazine)|Walkabout]]'' and ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.
Beal produced photographs with a critical perspective on Australian provincialism, drinking habits and sun-worship,<ref>H. G. Kippax, 'The world's most suburban people,' in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Saturday, 02 Sep 1967, p.19</ref> for the publication ''Southern Exposure'' (1967) in collaboration with social commentator and journalist [[Donald Horne]]. Of the book, in 2019 Dr Douglas Hassall remarked that;


{{quotation|"It said and showed some sharp and provocative things, which rather belied its “coffee table” format; and it therefore achieved, on a wider front, an overall effect rather as Robin Boyd’s ''The Australian Ugliness'' (1960) had done in respect of Australian architecture and design."<ref>Douglas Hassall, 'The Long Search for Australia’s Elusive Identity,' in Quadrant July-August 2019, p.42-49</ref>}}
{{quotation|"It said and showed some sharp and provocative things, which rather belied its “coffee table” format; and it therefore achieved, on a wider front, an overall effect rather as Robin Boyd’s ''The Australian Ugliness'' (1960) had done in respect of Australian architecture and design."<ref>Douglas Hassall, 'The Long Search for Australia’s Elusive Identity,' in Quadrant July-August 2019, p.42-49</ref>}}


Beal produced portraits for ''In the Making'' (1969) with [[Craig McGregor]], the latter being a survey of Australian artists 'in action' with a radical design by Harry Williamson, which on its release was negatively reviewed by Canberra journalist Maurice Dunleavy,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dunlevy|first=Maurice|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/324869|title=Biographical cuttings on Maurice Dunlevy, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> though in general Beal is accepted as an equal of colleagues [[David Moore (photographer)|David Moore]] and [[David Potts (photographer)|David Potts]] alongside whom he often worked.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/revealing-the-humanity-within-20030201-gdg78w.html|title=Revealing the humanity within|date=2003-02-01|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2020-03-19}}</ref>
Beal produced portraits for ''In the Making'' (1969) with [[Craig McGregor]], the latter being a survey of Australian artists 'in action' with a radical design by Harry Williamson, which on its release was negatively reviewed by Canberra journalist Maurice Dunleavy,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dunlevy|first=Maurice|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/324869|title=Biographical cuttings on Maurice Dunlevy, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> though in general Beal is accepted as an equal of colleagues [[David Moore (photographer)|David Moore]] and [[David Potts (photographer)|David Potts]] alongside whom he often worked.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/revealing-the-humanity-within-20030201-gdg78w.html|title=Revealing the humanity within|date=2003-02-01|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2020-03-19}}</ref>
{{quotation|" I’d just met Craig McGregor, the writer, and he’d been doing a series of articles for the Herald on designers and artists and architects. We talked about it and he had the idea that he’d like to turn it into a book. He was working with David Beal, who was a really good photographer and I’d worked with him at Vogue, but because the job was
so vast, and I was working with David Moore, I said to Craig, “Well, you know, there’s room for two photographers here.” David Beal was quite happy about that, because he and David got on very well."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://designhub.rmit.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/superstructurenewspaper-part220p.pdf|title=In Making: A conversation with Harry Williamson|last=Geddes|first=Stuart|date=|website=Kiosk|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> }}


==Publications==
==Publications==

Revision as of 10:26, 19 March 2020

David Beal (b.1936) is an Australian photojournalist.

Early life

David Beal was born in England in 1936.

Career

In 1959 Beal was living in Sydney and freelancing as a photographer for magazines including Pix,[1] for which he produced pin-ups.[2] During travel in Indonesia, in 1960 he interviewed and photographed Sukarno for a story for The Sydney Morning Herald,[3] From 1962 to 1971 his photographs appeared regularly in Walkabout and Vogue.

Beal produced photographs with a critical perspective on Australian provincialism, drinking habits and sun-worship,[4] for the publication Southern Exposure (1967) in collaboration with social commentator and journalist Donald Horne. Of the book, in 2019 Dr Douglas Hassall remarked that;

"It said and showed some sharp and provocative things, which rather belied its “coffee table” format; and it therefore achieved, on a wider front, an overall effect rather as Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness (1960) had done in respect of Australian architecture and design."[5]

Beal produced portraits for In the Making (1969) with Craig McGregor, the latter being a survey of Australian artists 'in action' with a radical design by Harry Williamson, which on its release was negatively reviewed by Canberra journalist Maurice Dunleavy,[6][7] though in general Beal is accepted as an equal of colleagues David Moore and David Potts alongside whom he often worked.[8]

" I’d just met Craig McGregor, the writer, and he’d been doing a series of articles for the Herald on designers and artists and architects. We talked about it and he had the idea that he’d like to turn it into a book. He was working with David Beal, who was a really good photographer and I’d worked with him at Vogue, but because the job was so vast, and I was working with David Moore, I said to Craig, “Well, you know, there’s room for two photographers here.” David Beal was quite happy about that, because he and David got on very well."[9]

Publications

  • Horne, Donald; Beal, David, 1936- (1967), Southern exposure, Collins{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[10]
  • McGregor, Craig; McGregor, Craig, 1933- (1969), In the making, Thomas Nelson (Australia), ISBN 978-0-17-001819-7{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[7]

Collections

  • National Library of Australia[11]
  • National Gallery of Victoria[12]

Awards

  • 1963: Frank Hurley Memorial Landscape Prize, highly commended.[13]

References

  1. ^ 'Around the clubs,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 14 Sep 1962, p.14
  2. ^ Eve Konrads. Beach Pix, Melbourne, 18 July 1959 / Photographs by David Beal
  3. ^ David Beal, 'We will have West N. Guinea,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday 30 October 1960, p.86
  4. ^ H. G. Kippax, 'The world's most suburban people,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, 02 Sep 1967, p.19
  5. ^ Douglas Hassall, 'The Long Search for Australia’s Elusive Identity,' in Quadrant July-August 2019, p.42-49
  6. ^ Dunlevy, Maurice. Biographical cuttings on Maurice Dunlevy, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals.
  7. ^ a b "Curiosity for a coffee table". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 22 November 1969. p. 13. Retrieved 19 March 2020 – via Trove.
  8. ^ "Revealing the humanity within". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2003-02-01. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  9. ^ Geddes, Stuart. "In Making: A conversation with Harry Williamson" (PDF). Kiosk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "AUSTRALIA'S 'IDENTITY CRISIS' Change comes slowly". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 August 1967. p. 13. Retrieved 19 March 2020 – via Trove.
  11. ^ "Trove search results for '"David Beal"' - Pictures, photos, objects". Trove. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  12. ^ "David BEAL | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  13. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, 23 Aug 1963, p.12
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