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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]]'' and ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.
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]]''<ref>Magagnoli, P. (2019). “A Library of Photographs Covering the Entire Continent”: Walkabout Magazine and the Politics of Documentary in Post-War Australia. Photography and Culture, 1-28</ref> 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;
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;

Revision as of 11:12, 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[4] and Vogue.

Beal produced photographs with a critical perspective on Australian provincialism, drinking habits and sun-worship,[5] 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."[6]

Beal produced portraits for In the Making (1969) with Craig McGregor,[7][8] 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,[9][10] though in general Beal is accepted as an equal of colleagues David Moore and David Potts alongside whom he often worked.[11]

"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."[12]

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)[13]
  • 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)[10]

Collections

  • National Library of Australia[14]
  • National Gallery of Victoria[15]

Awards

  • 1963: Frank Hurley Memorial Landscape Prize, highly commended.[16]

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. ^ Magagnoli, P. (2019). “A Library of Photographs Covering the Entire Continent”: Walkabout Magazine and the Politics of Documentary in Post-War Australia. Photography and Culture, 1-28
  5. ^ H. G. Kippax, 'The world's most suburban people,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, 02 Sep 1967, p.19
  6. ^ Douglas Hassall, 'The Long Search for Australia’s Elusive Identity,' in Quadrant July-August 2019, p.42-49
  7. ^ Terry, M. 'Australian people, politics and pop!.' The World of Antiques & Art, (74), 110
  8. ^ Mackenzie, B. (2003). Intellectual, passionate and compassionate: a recollection of David Moore, photographer. Landscape Australia, 25(2), 62.
  9. ^ Dunlevy, Maurice. Biographical cuttings on Maurice Dunlevy, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Revealing the humanity within". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2003-02-01. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  12. ^ Geddes, Stuart. "In Making: A conversation with Harry Williamson" (PDF). Kiosk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ "Trove search results for '"David Beal"' - Pictures, photos, objects". Trove. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  15. ^ "David BEAL | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  16. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, 23 Aug 1963, p.12