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David Beal was born in England in 1936 and arrived in Australia in 1951.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Van Wyk, Susan, (writer of added text.) | author2=National Gallery of Victoria, (host institution,) | title=Flash back : Australian photography in the 1960s | publication-date=2004 | publisher=National Gallery of Victoria | isbn=978-0-7347-6382-2 }}</ref>
David Beal was born in England in 1936 and arrived in Australia in 1951.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Van Wyk, Susan, (writer of added text.) | author2=National Gallery of Victoria, (host institution,) | title=Flash back : Australian photography in the 1960s | publication-date=2004 | publisher=National Gallery of Victoria | isbn=978-0-7347-6382-2 }}</ref>
==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><ref>Eve Konrads. Beach Pix, Melbourne, 18 July 1959 / Photographs by David Beal</ref> and for [[TV Week|''TV Week'']]. 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> [[Life (magazine)|Life]],<ref>Jordan Bonfante, with pictures by [[Farrell Grehan]] and David Beal,'Hail to the new king of Tonga', in ''LIFE'', 21 Jul 1967, Vol. 63, No. 3, p58-64 ISSN 0024-3019</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]] '',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://robertwalls.wordpress.com/tag/david-beal/|title=David Beal|website=This photographer's life|language=en|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> ''The Observer'' magazine<ref>'Young Australia' feature and cover, ''Observer'' Magazine, July 3 1966</ref> 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><ref>Eve Konrads. Beach Pix, Melbourne, 18 July 1959 / Photographs by David Beal</ref> and for [[TV Week|''TV Week'']]. 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 magazines<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ampicturelibrary.ifp3.com/|title=TEAR SHEETS Part 2 :: Australia and South East Asia by David Beal and friends|website=AM Picture Library|language=en|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> including ''[[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> [[Life (magazine)|Life]],<ref>Jordan Bonfante, with pictures by [[Farrell Grehan]] and David Beal,'Hail to the new king of Tonga', in ''LIFE'', 21 Jul 1967, Vol. 63, No. 3, p58-64 ISSN 0024-3019</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]] '',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://robertwalls.wordpress.com/tag/david-beal/|title=David Beal|website=This photographer's life|language=en|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> ''The Observer'' magazine,<ref>'Young Australia' feature and cover, ''Observer'' Magazine, July 3 1966</ref> [[Woman's Day (Australian magazine)|Woman's Day]],'' [[The Daily Telegraph]]'' magazine, ''[[The Illustrated London News]]'', ''[[Paris Match]]'', ''Playboy'', ''[[The Sunday Times Magazine]]'' and ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.


== Books ==
== Books ==

Revision as of 06:03, 21 March 2020

David Beal (born 1936) is an Australian photojournalist.

Early life

David Beal was born in England in 1936 and arrived in Australia in 1951.[1]

Career

In 1959 Beal was living in Sydney and freelancing as a photographer for magazines including Pix,[2][3] and for TV Week. During travel in Indonesia, in 1960 he interviewed and photographed Sukarno for a story for The Sydney Morning Herald,[4] From 1962 to 1971 his photographs appeared regularly in magazines[5] including Walkabout,[6] Life,[7] Time ,[8] The Observer magazine,[9] Woman's Day, The Daily Telegraph magazine, The Illustrated London News, Paris Match, Playboy, The Sunday Times Magazine and Vogue.

Books

Beal produced photographs with a critical perspective on Australian provincialism, drinking habits and sun-worship,[10] 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."[11]

Photography historian Martyn Jolly earlier proposed that Robert Goodman and George Johnston’s more upbeat and nationalistic The Australians (1966) and Southern Exposure "can be seen to have been in dialogue with each other"[12] during an earlier ‘photobook boom’ which was a precursor to the shift of photography to an art medium in the 1970s.[13]

Beal produced portraits for In the Making (1969) with Craig McGregor,[14][15] 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,[16][17] though in general Beal is accepted as an equal of colleagues David Moore and David Potts alongside whom he often worked.[18]

"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."[19]

Amongst other personalities he photographed were Dick Bently, June Dally, Lorraine Crapp, Dickie Valentine, Rudy Komon, Diana Ward, Russell Drysdale, John Kerr, John Olsen, Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski, Reg Grundy, Col Joye, Diana Trask, Bruce Petty, Kym Bonython, Marian Henderson, Poncie Ponce, Marlon Brando, and dress designers Norma Tullo and Hall Ludlow.

Later career

In the 1970s Beal founded 'Audience Motivation', an audio-visual company based in Paddington which made use of tape-programmed sound-synchronised multi-image 35mm transparency presentation technology; by the late 1980s it was largely superseded by video and data presentations.[20][21][22]

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)[23]
  • 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)[17]

Collections

  • National Library of Australia[24]
  • National Gallery of Victoria[25]
  • State Library of New South Wales[26]

Awards

  • 1963: Frank Hurley Memorial Landscape Prize, highly commended.[27]

References

  1. ^ Van Wyk, Susan, (writer of added text.); National Gallery of Victoria, (host institution,) (2004), Flash back : Australian photography in the 1960s, National Gallery of Victoria, ISBN 978-0-7347-6382-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ 'Around the clubs,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 14 Sep 1962, p.14
  3. ^ Eve Konrads. Beach Pix, Melbourne, 18 July 1959 / Photographs by David Beal
  4. ^ David Beal, 'We will have West N. Guinea,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday 30 October 1960, p.86
  5. ^ "TEAR SHEETS Part 2 :: Australia and South East Asia by David Beal and friends". AM Picture Library. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ Jordan Bonfante, with pictures by Farrell Grehan and David Beal,'Hail to the new king of Tonga', in LIFE, 21 Jul 1967, Vol. 63, No. 3, p58-64 ISSN 0024-3019
  8. ^ "David Beal". This photographer's life. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  9. ^ 'Young Australia' feature and cover, Observer Magazine, July 3 1966
  10. ^ H. G. Kippax, 'The world's most suburban people,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, 02 Sep 1967, p.19
  11. ^ Douglas Hassall, 'The Long Search for Australia’s Elusive Identity,' in Quadrant July–August 2019, p.42-49
  12. ^ Martyn Jolly (2014) Exposing The Australians: Australiana Photobooks of the 1960s, History of Photography, 38:3, 276-295, DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2014.939819
  13. ^ Phipps, Jennifer; Grant, Kirsty; Van Wyk, Susan; National Gallery of Victoria (1997), I had a dream : Australian art in the 1960's, National Gallery of Victoria, ISBN 978-0-7241-0193-1
  14. ^ Terry, M. 'Australian people, politics and pop!.' The World of Antiques & Art, (74), 110
  15. ^ Mackenzie, B. (2003). Intellectual, passionate and compassionate: a recollection of David Moore, photographer. Landscape Australia, 25(2), 62.
  16. ^ Dunlevy, Maurice. Biographical cuttings on Maurice Dunlevy, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ "Revealing the humanity within". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2003-02-01. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  19. ^ Geddes, Stuart. "In Making: A conversation with Harry Williamson" (PDF). Kiosk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ "Australia and South East Asia by David Beal and friends". AM Picture Library. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  21. ^ Lloyd, Pamela (October 1997). "TwentyYears of Talking: A history of the meetings industry in Australia" (PDF). Meetings Industry Association of Australia.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. ^ Beal, David (1985), Ōsutoraria imēji = Australian image, Audience Motivation, ISBN 978-0-9589862-0-5
  23. ^ "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.
  24. ^ "Trove search results for '"David Beal"' - Pictures, photos, objects". Trove. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  25. ^ "David BEAL | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  26. ^ "David Beal in the State Library of New South Wales - search". State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 2020-03-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, 23 Aug 1963, p.12
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