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A major client was [[Richard Johnson (architect)|Richard Johnson]] architect, then with the [[Department of Housing and Construction (1978–82)|Department of Housing and Construction]], with whom Beal conceived and produced the opening exhibit in 1988 for the [[Powerhouse Museum|Powerhouse]] which was an 360º multi image cube titled ''Creativity'' and major Expo presentations; an eighty-projector show on five screens presenting 'The Australian way of life' for the Australian Pavilions at Expo 82 Knoxville Tennessee;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldsfairphotos.com/knoxville82/documents/australia-at-expo-82.pdf|title=Australia at the Knoxville International Energy Exposition - Energy Down Under|last=Thompson|first=Fiona|date=1982|website=Worlds Fair Photos|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> [[1984 Louisiana World Exposition|Expo 84]] in New Orleans; [[Expo '85|Expo 85]] Tsukuba; [[Seville Expo '92|Expo 92]] in Seville; and the [[Australia Post]] pavilion at [[World Expo 88|Expo 88]] in Brisbane for which 100 computer-controlled projectors were used.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldsfairphotos.com/expo88/documents/expo-info-manual/a.pdf|title=Expo88 Information Manual|last=|first=|date=1988|website=Worlds Fair Photos|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=5 April 2020}}</ref>
A major client was [[Richard Johnson (architect)|Richard Johnson]] architect, then with the [[Department of Housing and Construction (1978–82)|Department of Housing and Construction]], with whom Beal conceived and produced the opening exhibit in 1988 for the [[Powerhouse Museum|Powerhouse]] which was an 360º multi image cube titled ''Creativity'' and major Expo presentations; an eighty-projector show on five screens presenting 'The Australian way of life' for the Australian Pavilions at Expo 82 Knoxville Tennessee;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldsfairphotos.com/knoxville82/documents/australia-at-expo-82.pdf|title=Australia at the Knoxville International Energy Exposition - Energy Down Under|last=Thompson|first=Fiona|date=1982|website=Worlds Fair Photos|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> [[1984 Louisiana World Exposition|Expo 84]] in New Orleans; [[Expo '85|Expo 85]] Tsukuba; [[Seville Expo '92|Expo 92]] in Seville; and the [[Australia Post]] pavilion at [[World Expo 88|Expo 88]] in Brisbane for which 100 computer-controlled projectors were used.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldsfairphotos.com/expo88/documents/expo-info-manual/a.pdf|title=Expo88 Information Manual|last=|first=|date=1988|website=Worlds Fair Photos|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=5 April 2020}}</ref>


Though by the late 1980s the audio-visual medium was being gradually superseded by video and data presentations, Audience Motivation continued to garner major commissions; in the middle 1990s Beal photographed in China for major mutli-screen AVs that Audience Motivation produced for a number of major corporate conventions staged in Beijing, requiring the shipping of 3 tonnes of audiovisual equipment. The company used the work of a number of younger Australian photographers, including [[Philip Quirk]] of '[[Wildlight (photo agency)|Wildlight]]' and Barry Wills.
Though by the late 1980s the audio-visual medium was being gradually superseded by video and data presentations, Audience Motivation continued to garner major commissions; in the middle 1990s Beal photographed in China for major mutli-screen AVs that Audience Motivation produced for a number of major corporate conventions staged in Beijing, requiring the shipping of 3 tonnes of audiovisual equipment.

Beal's role in advancing the careers of Australian creatives was significant, as Audience Motivation employed scriptwriter Barry Wills, multimedia experts Bruce Brown and Rob Kane, and incorporated the work of a number of  Australian photographers, including Philip Quirk of ‘Wildlight’, Stuart Owen Fox, David Robert Austen and Richard Woldedorp.


==Publications==
==Publications==

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David Beal (born 1936) is a British-born Australian photojournalist and multimedia producer, active from 1956–1990s.

Early life

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

Career

Aged 19, Beal was the sole photographer at the rescue of 19 year old David Hally, lost for six days in the Victorian Alps, and his story was purchased for and syndicated by Melbourne's The Sun to the Brisbane Courier-Mail and the Adelaide Advertiser. The scoop led to employment on Adelaide's The News, for which he covered fires, visiting American celebrities Johnnie Ray and Nat King Cole, rodeos, cloud seeding, crime stories, weddings and accidents. After losing his job with the paper he hitchhiked to Sydney, shooting a story on drug use by long-distance truck drivers on the way,[2] and there began freelancing as a photographer for magazines including Pix,[3][4] Woman's Day,[5][6][7] 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[8] which confirmed Indonesian designs on New Guinea and Papua, and his scoop was also published in Pix.

From 1963 Beal freelanced, his photographs appearing regularly in magazines[9] including Walkabout,[10] Arriving in the US, Life hired him to photograph baseball and the British challenger in the America's Cup.[11] Based in Greece for Black Star agency, his pictures appeared in issues of Life,[12] Time ,[13] The Observer magazine,[14] The Daily Telegraph magazine, The Illustrated London News,[15][16][17]Paris Match, Playboy,[18] The Sunday Times Magazine, Australian Photography[19][20][21][22] 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 Europe during which he covered Churchill's funeral for Paris Match and provided the illustrations for Men of Auschwitz, a story written by his wife Dawn on war crimes trials for The Sunday Times, London, returning to Australia in 1965. His work featured on the covers of four 1966 The Bulletin issues, which contained his coverage of the filming of The Weird Mob;[23] 'The Beach';[24] 'Teenagers: the wild ones';[25] and a feature on Hans Heysen[26] 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,[27] 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."[28]

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"[29] during an earlier ‘photobook boom’ which was a precursor of the shift of photography as an art medium in the 1970s.[30]

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,[31][32] 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.[33] On its release the book was negatively reviewed by Canberra journalist Maurice Dunleavy.[34][35] Since then, the book has come to be regarded as the Australian answer to Antony Armstrong-Jones' survey of British creatives, Private View (1965).[36]

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,[37] to photograph homes and business premises they had decorated for the publication Australian decor.[38]

Reputation

Beal is accepted the equal of colleagues David Moore and David Potts alongside whom he worked on several assignments.[39] 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."[40]

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, David Fanshawe, Les Tanner, Peter Powditch, Len French, Sydney Ball, Robert Grieve, Tony Coleing, Sir William Dobell OBE, Winnie Bamara, Jon Molvig, John Brack, Sir Hans Heysen OBE, Gary Shead, David Aspden, Clifton Pugh, 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.[41][42][43] for whom the company made novel large scale multiscreen shows for IBM in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok, Beijing, KL, and Sydney, and similar for Pacific Asia Travel Association in Bali, Bangkok and HK.

A major client was Richard Johnson architect, then with the Department of Housing and Construction, with whom Beal conceived and produced the opening exhibit in 1988 for the Powerhouse which was an 360º multi image cube titled Creativity and major Expo presentations; an eighty-projector show on five screens presenting 'The Australian way of life' for the Australian Pavilions at Expo 82 Knoxville Tennessee;[44] Expo 84 in New Orleans; Expo 85 Tsukuba; Expo 92 in Seville; and the Australia Post pavilion at Expo 88 in Brisbane for which 100 computer-controlled projectors were used.[45]

Though by the late 1980s the audio-visual medium was being gradually superseded by video and data presentations, Audience Motivation continued to garner major commissions; in the middle 1990s Beal photographed in China for major mutli-screen AVs that Audience Motivation produced for a number of major corporate conventions staged in Beijing, requiring the shipping of 3 tonnes of audiovisual equipment.

Beal's role in advancing the careers of Australian creatives was significant, as Audience Motivation employed scriptwriter Barry Wills, multimedia experts Bruce Brown and Rob Kane, and incorporated the work of a number of  Australian photographers, including Philip Quirk of ‘Wildlight’, Stuart Owen Fox, David Robert Austen and Richard Woldedorp.

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)[46]
  • 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)[35]
  • 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[47]
  • National Gallery of Victoria[48]
  • State Library of New South Wales[49]
  • Museum of Applied Arts, Sydney

Awards

  • 1963: Frank Hurley Memorial Landscape Prize, highly commended.[50]

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. ^ "TEAR SHEETS Part 2 :: Australia and South East Asia by David Beal and friends". AM Picture Library. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  3. ^ 'Around the clubs,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 14 Sep 1962, p.14
  4. ^ Eve Konrads. Beach Pix, Melbourne, 18 July 1959 / Photographs by David Beal
  5. ^ Cover, Woman's Day, December 22, 1958
  6. ^ 'I took a trip on a sailing ship...', Woman's Day, July 3, 1961, p.4
  7. ^ Cover, Woman's Day, September 11, 1961
  8. ^ David Beal, 'We will have West N. Guinea,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday 30 October 1960, p.86
  9. ^ "TEAR SHEETS Part 2 :: Australia and South East Asia by David Beal and friends". AM Picture Library. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  10. ^ 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
  11. ^ 'Tooling up for the America's Cup', Life, June 12, 1964, Vol 56, No. 24, p.68-82
  12. ^ 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
  13. ^ "David Beal". This photographer's life. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  14. ^ 'Young Australia' feature and cover, Observer Magazine, July 3 1966
  15. ^ Illustrated London News, February 26, 1966
  16. ^ Illustrated London News, Saturday 19 February 1966
  17. ^ Illustrated London News, Saturday 25 April 1970
  18. ^ Playboy (USA, Italy editions), Vol 19, No.7, July 1972
  19. ^ Australian Photography, November 1963
  20. ^ Australian Photography, December 1963
  21. ^ Australian Photography, February, 1964
  22. ^ Australian Photography, December, 1969
  23. ^ The Bulletin, Vol. 88 No. 4481, January 22, 1966
  24. ^ The Bulletin, Vol. 88 No. 4479 (8 Jan 1966)
  25. ^ The Bulletin, Vol. 88 No. 4487, March 5, 1966
  26. ^ The Bulletin, Vol. 88 No. 4490, March 25, 1966
  27. ^ H. G. Kippax, 'The world's most suburban people,' in The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, 02 Sep 1967, p.19
  28. ^ Douglas Hassall, 'The Long Search for Australia’s Elusive Identity,' in Quadrant July–August 2019, p.42-49
  29. ^ Martyn Jolly (2014) Exposing The Australians: Australiana Photobooks of the 1960s, History of Photography, 38:3, 276-295, DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2014.939819
  30. ^ 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
  31. ^ Terry, M. 'Australian people, politics and pop!.' The World of Antiques & Art, (74), 110
  32. ^ Mackenzie, B. (2003). Intellectual, passionate and compassionate: a recollection of David Moore, photographer. Landscape Australia, 25(2), 62.
  33. ^ 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
  34. ^ Dunlevy, Maurice. Biographical cuttings on Maurice Dunlevy, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals.
  35. ^ 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.
  36. ^ Lloyd, R. Ian; McDonald, John; Woldendorp, Yolanta; Moore, Wendy (2007), Studio : Australian painters on the nature of creativity (1st ed.), R. Ian Lloyd Productions, ISBN 978-981-05-7466-6
  37. ^ "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)
  38. ^ 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)
  39. ^ "Revealing the humanity within". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2003-02-01. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  40. ^ Geddes, Stuart. "In Making: A conversation with Harry Williamson" (PDF). Kiosk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  41. ^ "Australia and South East Asia by David Beal and friends". AM Picture Library. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  42. ^ 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)
  43. ^ Beal, David (1985), Ōsutoraria imēji = Australian image, Audience Motivation, ISBN 978-0-9589862-0-5
  44. ^ Thompson, Fiona (1982). "Australia at the Knoxville International Energy Exposition - Energy Down Under" (PDF). Worlds Fair Photos.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  45. ^ "Expo88 Information Manual" (PDF). Worlds Fair Photos. 1988. Retrieved 5 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  46. ^ "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.
  47. ^ "Trove search results for '"David Beal"' - Pictures, photos, objects". Trove. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  48. ^ "David BEAL | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  49. ^ "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)
  50. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, 23 Aug 1963, p.12
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