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Photography historian Martyn Jolly earlier proposed that Robert Goodman and [[George Johnston (novelist)|George Johnston]]’s more upbeat and nationalistic ''The Australians'' (1966) and ''Southern Exposure'' "can be seen to have been in dialogue with each other"<ref>Martyn Jolly (2014) Exposing The Australians: Australiana Photobooks of the 1960s, ''History of Photography'', 38:3, 276-295, DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2014.939819</ref> during an earlier ‘photobook boom’ which was a precursor of the shift of photography as an art medium in the 1970s.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Phipps, Jennifer | author2=Grant, Kirsty | author3=Van Wyk, Susan | author4=National Gallery of Victoria | title=I had a dream : Australian art in the 1960's | publication-date=1997 | publisher=National Gallery of Victoria | isbn=978-0-7241-0193-1 }}</ref>
Photography historian Martyn Jolly earlier proposed that Robert Goodman and [[George Johnston (novelist)|George Johnston]]’s more upbeat and nationalistic ''The Australians'' (1966) and ''Southern Exposure'' "can be seen to have been in dialogue with each other"<ref>Martyn Jolly (2014) Exposing The Australians: Australiana Photobooks of the 1960s, ''History of Photography'', 38:3, 276-295, DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2014.939819</ref> during an earlier ‘photobook boom’ which was a precursor of the shift of photography as an art medium in the 1970s.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Phipps, Jennifer | author2=Grant, Kirsty | author3=Van Wyk, Susan | author4=National Gallery of Victoria | title=I had a dream : Australian art in the 1960's | publication-date=1997 | publisher=National Gallery of Victoria | isbn=978-0-7241-0193-1 }}</ref>


After publishing ''Life in Australia'' in 1968, the following year Beal produced portraits of artists, writers and musician including [[Ian Fairweather]], [[Ron Robertson-Swann]], [[Patrick White]], [[David Boyd (artist)|David Boyd]], [[Roy Grounds|Sir Roy Grounds]], David Aspden, [[Nigel Butterley]], [[Douglas Stewart (poet)|Douglas Stewart]] and [[Richard Meale]] for ''In the Making'' (1969) with [[Craig McGregor]],<ref>Terry, M. 'Australian people, politics and pop!.' ''The World of Antiques & Art'', (74), 110</ref><ref>Mackenzie, B. (2003). Intellectual, passionate and compassionate: a recollection of David Moore, photographer. Landscape Australia, 25(2), 62.</ref> 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" /> Since then, the book has come to be regarded as the Australian answer to [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon|Antony Armstrong-Jones']] survey of British creatives, ''Private View'' (1965).<ref>{{Citation | author1=Lloyd, R. Ian | author2=McDonald, John | author3=Woldendorp, Yolanta | author4=Moore, Wendy | title=Studio : Australian painters on the nature of creativity | publication-date=2007 | publisher=R. Ian Lloyd Productions | edition=1st ed | isbn=978-981-05-7466-6 }}</ref>
After publishing ''Life in Australia'' in 1968, the following year Beal produced portraits of artists, writers and musician including [[Ian Fairweather]], [[Ron Robertson-Swann]], [[Patrick White]], [[David Boyd (artist)|David Boyd]], [[Roy Grounds|Sir Roy Grounds]], David Aspden, [[Nigel Butterley]], [[Douglas Stewart (poet)|Douglas Stewart]] and [[Richard Meale]] for ''In the Making'' (1969) with [[Craig McGregor]],<ref>Terry, M. 'Australian people, politics and pop!.' ''The World of Antiques & Art'', (74), 110</ref><ref>Mackenzie, B. (2003). Intellectual, passionate and compassionate: a recollection of David Moore, photographer. Landscape Australia, 25(2), 62.</ref> the latter being a survey of Australian artists 'in action' with a radical design by Harry Williamson. The photography involved travel all over Australia, with Beal and McGregor taking a boat from [[Brisbane]] to [[Bribie Island]], to interview and photograph Ian Fairweather who was living out his last years as a hermit, still painting.<ref>{{Citation | author1=McGregor, Craig | title=Left hand drive : a social and political memoir | publication-date=2013 | publisher=Affirm Press ; North Sydney : Random House Australia [Distributor] | isbn=978-1-922213-08-2 }}</ref> On its release the book 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" /> Since then, the book has come to be regarded as the Australian answer to [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon|Antony Armstrong-Jones']] survey of British creatives, ''Private View'' (1965).<ref>{{Citation | author1=Lloyd, R. Ian | author2=McDonald, John | author3=Woldendorp, Yolanta | author4=Moore, Wendy | title=Studio : Australian painters on the nature of creativity | publication-date=2007 | publisher=R. Ian Lloyd Productions | edition=1st ed | isbn=978-981-05-7466-6 }}</ref>


During 1971 David Beal and his wife Dawn collaborated on the production for a children's book series ''I Want to Be...'' and that year he was employed by the firm Decor Associates Pty. Ltd. in whom Warren T. Harding and David C. Lorimer were partners,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Harding,%20Warren%20T.%20Australian%20decor%22&iknowwhatimean=1|title=Warren T. Harding and David C. Lorimer collection of interior design|last=|first=|date=|website=National Library of Australia|language=en-au|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> to photograph homes and business premises they had decorated for the publication ''Australian decor''.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Harding, Warren T | author2=Lorimer, David C, (joint author.) | author3=Beal, David, 1936-, (illus.) | title=Australian decor | publication-date=1971 | publisher=Nelson | isbn=978-0-17-001913-2 }}</ref>
During 1971 David Beal and his wife Dawn collaborated on the production for a children's book series ''I Want to Be...'' and that year he was employed by the firm Decor Associates Pty. Ltd. in whom Warren T. Harding and David C. Lorimer were partners,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Harding,%20Warren%20T.%20Australian%20decor%22&iknowwhatimean=1|title=Warren T. Harding and David C. Lorimer collection of interior design|last=|first=|date=|website=National Library of Australia|language=en-au|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> to photograph homes and business premises they had decorated for the publication ''Australian decor''.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Harding, Warren T | author2=Lorimer, David C, (joint author.) | author3=Beal, David, 1936-, (illus.) | title=Australian decor | publication-date=1971 | publisher=Nelson | isbn=978-0-17-001913-2 }}</ref>

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David Beal (born 1936) is a British-born Australian photojournalist and multimedia producer, active from 1956–1980s.

Early life

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

Career

Aged 20, Beal worked in his first job as a newspaper photographer in Adelaide in 1956. By 1959 he was living in Sydney and freelancing as a photographer for magazines including Pix,[2][3] and for TV Week.

During travel in Indonesia while on annual leave from The Sydney Morning Herald where he was then employed in 1960 he interviewed and photographed Sukarno for a story for the newspaper[4] which confirmed Indonesian designs on New Guinea and Papua, and his scoop was also published in Pix.

From 1963 he freelanced for Black Star agency, his photographs appearing regularly in magazines[5] including Walkabout,[6] as well as in issues of 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.

In Papua New Guinea for Time magazine during their first general election in 1964 he was taking pictures on a bridge of bearers carrying ballot boxes when he was hit by a truck which broke his legs. Later that year he spent 18 months in the US and in the UK during which he photographed the Australian challenger in the 1962 America's Cup, Gretel, for Life, and Men of Auschwitz, a story on war crimes trials for The Sunday Times, London, 1965. In 1967 he returned to New Guinea to photograph wreckage from the Battle of the Coral Sea, also for Life.

In 1968 Kodak (Australasia) supported the National Gallery of Victoria, which was then in the process of setting up a photography department, to buy photographs by Beal along with those of other photojournalists David Moore, Helmut Gritscher and Lance Nelson.

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 of the shift of photography as an art medium in the 1970s.[13]

After publishing Life in Australia in 1968, the following year Beal produced portraits of artists, writers and musician including Ian Fairweather, Ron Robertson-Swann, Patrick White, David Boyd, Sir Roy Grounds, David Aspden, Nigel Butterley, Douglas Stewart and Richard Meale 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. The photography involved travel all over Australia, with Beal and McGregor taking a boat from Brisbane to Bribie Island, to interview and photograph Ian Fairweather who was living out his last years as a hermit, still painting.[16] On its release the book was negatively reviewed by Canberra journalist Maurice Dunleavy.[17][18] Since then, the book has come to be regarded as the Australian answer to Antony Armstrong-Jones' survey of British creatives, Private View (1965).[19]

During 1971 David Beal and his wife Dawn collaborated on the production for a children's book series I Want to Be... and that year he was employed by the firm Decor Associates Pty. Ltd. in whom Warren T. Harding and David C. Lorimer were partners,[20] to photograph homes and business premises they had decorated for the publication Australian decor.[21]

Reputation

Beal is accepted the equal of colleagues David Moore and David Potts alongside whom he worked on several assignments.[22] Stuart Geddes recalls his impression of the relative status of the photographer in the production of In the Making;

"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."[23]

Portraits

Amongst other personalities Beal 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.[24][25][26] The company used the work of a number of young Australian photographers, including Philip Quirk of 'Wildlight.'

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)[27]
  • McGregor, Craig; McGregor, Craig, 1933-; Beal, David, 1936- (1968), Life in Australia, Southern Cross International{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • 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)[18]
  • Beal, Dawn; Beal, David, 1936- (1971), I want to be an airline pilot, T. Nelson, ISBN 978-0-17-002915-5{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Beal, Dawn; Beal, David, 1936- (1971), I want to be an artist, Thomas Nelson (Australia), ISBN 978-0-17-002914-8{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Beal, Dawn; Beal, David, 1936- (1971), I want to be a ferry boat captain, Thomas Nelson (Australia), ISBN 978-0-17-002913-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Beal, Dawn; Beal, David, 1936- (1971), I want to be a vet, Thomas Nelson (Australia), ISBN 978-0-17-002911-7{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Beal, Dawn; Beal, David, 1936- (1971), I want to be a model, Thomas Nelson (Australia), ISBN 978-0-17-002912-4{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Beal, Dawn; Beal, David, 1936- (1971), I want to be an airline hostess, Thomas Nelson (Australia), retrieved 21 March 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Harding, Warren T; Lorimer, David C, (joint author.); Beal, David, 1936-, (illus.) (1971), Australian decor, Nelson, ISBN 978-0-17-001913-2 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Collections

  • National Library of Australia[28]
  • National Gallery of Victoria[29]
  • State Library of New South Wales[30]
  • Museum of Applied Arts, Sydney

Awards

  • 1963: Frank Hurley Memorial Landscape Prize, highly commended.[31]

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. ^ McGregor, Craig (2013), Left hand drive : a social and political memoir, Affirm Press ; North Sydney : Random House Australia [Distributor], ISBN 978-1-922213-08-2
  17. ^ Dunlevy, Maurice. Biographical cuttings on Maurice Dunlevy, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ Lloyd, R. Ian; McDonald, John; Woldendorp, Yolanta; Moore, Wendy (2007), Studio : Australian painters on the nature of creativity (1st ed ed.), R. Ian Lloyd Productions, ISBN 978-981-05-7466-6 {{citation}}: |edition= has extra text (help)
  20. ^ "Warren T. Harding and David C. Lorimer collection of interior design". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2020-03-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ Harding, Warren T; Lorimer, David C, (joint author.); Beal, David, 1936-, (illus.) (1971), Australian decor, Nelson, ISBN 978-0-17-001913-2 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ "Revealing the humanity within". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2003-02-01. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  23. ^ Geddes, Stuart. "In Making: A conversation with Harry Williamson" (PDF). Kiosk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  24. ^ "Australia and South East Asia by David Beal and friends". AM Picture Library. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  25. ^ 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)
  26. ^ Beal, David (1985), Ōsutoraria imēji = Australian image, Audience Motivation, ISBN 978-0-9589862-0-5
  27. ^ "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.
  28. ^ "Trove search results for '"David Beal"' - Pictures, photos, objects". Trove. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  29. ^ "David BEAL | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  30. ^ "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)
  31. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, 23 Aug 1963, p.12
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