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* 1958 ''Seven Years a Stranger'', Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
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* 1960, from 15 January; David Moore, 80 photographs, Paxton's Gallery, 308 George St., Sydney<ref>''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Friday 15 Jan 1960, p.12</ref>
* 1976 ''David Moore Photographs'', [[The Photographers' Gallery|The Photographers’ Gallery, London]]
* 1976 ''David Moore Photographs'', [[The Photographers' Gallery|The Photographers’ Gallery, London]]
* 1976 ''David Moore Retrospective 1940-76'', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
* 1976 ''David Moore Retrospective 1940-76'', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

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David Moore (6 April 1927 – 23 January 2003)[1] was an Australian photojournalist.

Early life and education

David Moore Battersea Fun Fair, London (1951)

Moore was born in Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia, the younger brother of Tony, the two children of artist Gladys Mary (née Owen) O.B.E.[2][3] and architect and artist John D. Moore[4] He was educated (1933-39) at Tudor House primary school when he was given a Coronet box camera with which he photographed fellow student and future Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, sailing a toy yacht.[5] His secondary studies were at Geelong Grammar School 1939-1945. During World War II he served in the Royal Australian Navy. In 1947, having begun studies in architecture, he decided on a photography career, which he began in the studio of Russell Roberts in Sydney, moving on to work with Max Dupain 1948-51.[6][7]

Career

Moore's work started being exhibited[8] and published, in 1948 when he was 21, with a double page spread in a 1950 Sunday supplement of The Sydney Morning Herald being devoted to his series on the preparation of an ocean liner for its return journey to the UK,[9] and inclusion in a book Australian Photography.[10] Despite being offered a junior partnership with Dupain, Moore moved to London in 1951, where commissioned work appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Observer, Fortune, Life, Look and other publications and undertook commissions in the USA, Europe and in Africa,[7] including accompanying the Royal Tour in Nigeria in 1956.[11]

David Moore (1963) Sculptor Marea Gazzard

The couple returned to Australia on RMS Orion, 2 August, 1958,[12] in time for the opening of a solo exhibition of Moore's work at Macquarie Galleries,[13][14] and a year before his father's death.[15] He contributed picture stories to local publications including Walkabout,[16][17] but continued to sell to American and British magazines, represented by the New York-based Black Star photo agency from 1958.[7]

Recognition

Moore was early recognised as a significant practitioner. In a 1959 review his Slum Kids is favourably compared with his employer Dupain's Meat Queue in a review of a group show alongside Laurence Le Guay at David Jones Gallery.[8]

Another early image, also made while apprenticed to Dupain, of a struggling family in working class Redfern was included in Edward Steichen's major 1955 exhibition The Family of Man which originated at the Museum of Modern Art and toured the world.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] In a newspaper article Moore corrected the misinformation that he was the only Australian with work in the show–Laurence Le Guay had been mis-credited by MoMA as being a New Guinea photographer.[27]

Commentator Craig McGregor regarded Moore as amongst a few who had "made the crucial breakthrough in Australian photography",[28] Photographs by him were purchased, with those of David Beal, Helmut Gritscher, Lance Nelson and Richard Woldendorp in 1969 for the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne through the KODAK (Australasia) Pty Ltd Fund. In December a group show of these works was held, the first representation of photography at the new National Gallery of Victoria quarters in St Kilda Road.[29] Moore's 1966 photograph Migrants Arriving in Sydney, originating from a commission by National Geographic, is regarded as an iconic work of modern Australian photography.[30]

Fine art photography

In the 1970s Moore developed non-commissioned works aimed at capturing what he called "the soft flow of time",[31] as opposed to the "decisive moment" favoured by magazine editors. Much of such work by him was exhibited in commercial galleries.

Contributions to the profession

Moore contributed energetically to research into historical Australian photography, making in 1976 an archive of gelatin silver prints from the collection of Henri Mallard's glass negatives that were published in association with Sun Books in 1978,[32] and from 1979, researching Australian photography for a book Australia, Image of a Nation 1850-1950, that was published in October 1983.[33] During the 1970s he was an influential figure in the development of art photography, and was a dedicated advocate for the acceptance of photography as a legitimate art form and was a founder, with Wesley Stacey, of the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.[31][34][35]

Exhibitions

The first retrospective of Moore's work, held in 1977 at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney,[36] was acquired by the Australian National Gallery (now renamed the National Gallery of Australia).[31]

Solo

  • 1953; People in Photographs The Architectural Association, London
  • 1955, from 24 August, solo show, Macquarie Galleries[13]
  • 1958 Seven Years a Stranger, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
  • 1959 Seven Years a Stranger, The Museum of Modern Art Australia, Melbourne[37]
  • 1960, from 15 January; David Moore, 80 photographs, Paxton's Gallery, 308 George St., Sydney[38]
  • 1976 David Moore Photographs, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
  • 1976 David Moore Retrospective 1940-76, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
  • 1976 David Moore Retrospective 1940-76, Brummels Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1976 David Moore Retrospective 1940-76, Orange, NSW Festival of Arts
  • 1978 David Moore Retrospective 1940-1976, touring New Zealand
  • 1977 Australia, Australian Embassy, Paris
  • 1980 Photographs by Design, Axiom Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1980 Exhibition, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
  • 1983 The Landscape of NSW, New South Wales Parliament House, Sydney
  • 1985 Sydney at Mid-Century, AGNSW, Sydney
  • 1985 Sydney at Mid-Century, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1985 Sydney at Mid-Century, Developed Image, SA
  • 1985 The CRA Pilbara Project, touring Asia & Japan
  • 1986 Australian Artists 1960-85, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1986 Australian Artists 1960-85, The Print Room, Sydney
  • 1988 Sydney at Mid-Century, New South Wales House, London
  • 1988 The Australian Functional Tradition, Christine Abrahams Gallery
  • 1988 David Moore: Fifty Years of Photographs, Retrospective, AGNSW
  • 1989 David Moore: Fifty Years of Photographs, regional galleries tour
  • 1989 David Moore: Australian Photographer, Australian Embassy, Paris, France
  • 1990 David Moore: A Survey 1947-89, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
  • 1991 David Moore (The Kodak Collection) Puerto Rico; Shenyang, China
  • 1993 Queenstown Landscapes, Tasmania, Image Hong Kong 93, Hong Kong
  • 1993 Sydney Harbour, State Library of New South Wales
  • 1993 Railways, Relics and Romance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • 1995 Concert Works, The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Opera House
  • 1997 The Unseen Images, AGNSW, Sydney
  • 1998 The Unseen Images, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2001 The Unseen Images, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne
  • 2003, 25 January - 21 April; The spread of time: the photography of David Moore, National Gallery of Australia.[31]
  • 2005 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2005, June; David Moore: 100 Photographs, State Library of NSW, Sydney
  • 2006, August; David Moore: A Vision, 1927 – 2003, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne; Bendigo Art Gallery; Shepparton Art Gallery; Albury Regional Art Gallery; Gold Coast City Art Gallery; Wollongong City Gallery; Mildura Arts Centre; Port Pirie Regional Gallery; La Trobe Regional Gallery
  • 2013-14 David Moore: Capturing the creation of the Sydney Opera House; Customs House, Sydney
  • 2014-15 A Feat of Daring – David Moore’s tribute to the ANZAC Bridge; Customs House, Sydney

Group

  • 1949, from 28 March; David Jones Gallery, Sydney[8]
  • 1952; World Exhibition of Photography Lucerne, Switzerland[39]
  • 1955; The Family of Man, MoMA, New York, and world tour[19]
  • 1969, December; The Perceptive Eye, David Moore, David Beal, Helmut Gritscher, Lance Nelson and Richard Woldendorp, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne[5]
  • 1967 Photography in the Fine Arts, The Metropolitan Museum, New York.[5]
  • 1967 Pacific Photographic Fair, Melbourne.[5]
  • 1973 Work in Progress, Brummels Gallery, Melbourne.[5]
  • 1975 Recent Australian Photography The Department of Foreign Affairs, Touring Exhibition, South East Asia.[5]
  • 1979 The Philip Morris Collection, Hyde Park, Sydney.[5]
  • 1980 APIA Photography in the Park, Sydney.[5]

Personal life

Moore married West Australian Jennifer Flintoff in 1955 while they were both in London, he freelancing and she teaching in the East End,[40] and they had four children. They divorced in 1968. Moore died on 23 January 2003 of oesophageal cancer at a private hospital in Longueville, New South Wales, aged 75.[1] A major retrospective on his life and work opened at the National Gallery of Australia two days later.

Awards

  • 1965; Special Award at the exhibition The World and its People at the New York World Fair
  • 1967; five First Prizes at the Pacific Fair, Melbourne
  • 1971; First Prize Nikon colour section at the International Photographic Competition
  • 1979; Commonwealth Prize for services rendered as a professional photographer in Australia
  • 1985 First Prize, the Denison Award for Architectural Photography
  • 1989 Honorary Fellowship, Australian Institute of Professional Photography
  • 1994 Awarded Australian Artists Creative Fellowship (two years)
  • 2017 Posthumously inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Australian Journalism

Publications

  • Moore, David (1988), David Moore, Australian photographer, Chapter & Verse, ISBN 978-0-947322-04-5
  • Hall, Rodney; Moore, David R (1983), Australia, Image of a Nation 1850-1950, Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-216447-4
  • Moore, David (2000). Fifty Photographs. Introduction by David Marr. Sydney: Chapter & Verse.
  • — (Summer 2000). "Growing up". Granta. 70. Photographs introduced by David Malouf: 105–131.
  • Moore, David; Renew, Robert, 1948-; Waldron, Murray (1996), To build a bridge : Glebe Island, Sydney, Australia, Chapter & Verse, ISBN 978-0-947322-10-6{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Moore, David; Moore, Lisa, David Moore Photography -date=2008, David Moore Photography, retrieved 13 December 2020
  • Moore, David; Hall, Rodney, 1935- (1993), Sydney Harbour, McMahons Point, NSW Chapter & Verse, ISBN 978-0-947322-09-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Moore, David; Armidale Development Corporation (1992), Image of New England : Armidale, Walcha, Uralla, Dumaresq and Guyra, Armidale Development Corporation, ISBN 978-0-646-09385-7
  • Moore, David; Ashton, Chris; Newton, Gael. Train of thoughts; Milliken, Robert, 1946-. Heat and sparks (1995), Railways, relics and romance : the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Sydney, New South Wales (Limited ed.), Caroline Simpson, ISBN 978-0-9596232-2-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Moore, David; Thomas, Daniel, 1931-; National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (2000), From face to face : portraits, Chapter & Verse, ISBN 978-0-947322-21-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Moore, David; Annear, Judy; Art Gallery of New South Wales (1997), David Moore, the unseen images : an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Chapter Verse, ISBN 978-0-947322-18-2
  • Moore, David; Imhoff, Robert; Cato Design, Inc (1995), The Australian photographers collection 1, Craftsman House, ISBN 978-976-641-068-1
  • Moore, David; McCaughey, Patrick, 1943-, (author.); Christine Abrahams Gallery; Print Room (Gallery) (1986), Australian artists 1960-1985 : a personal selection of photographs by David Moore, [David Moore], retrieved 13 December 2020 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Moore, David; Hamersley Iron Pty. Ltd; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (1998), A photographic journey : David Moore in the Pilbara : presented by Hamersley Iron, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, the Unversity of Western Australia 6 November 1998 to 31 January 1999, The Gallery, retrieved 13 December 2020

Books with photographs by David Moore

  • Ziegler, Oswald L. (Oswald Leopold), 1900-1984 (1948), Australian photography 1947, Ziegler Gotham Publications, retrieved 13 December 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Spencer, Gwen Morton; Ure-Smith, Sam, 1922-2013; Slessor, Kenneth, 1901-1971; Dupain, Max, 1911-1992 (1950), Portrait of Sydney : a photographic impression with an illuminating article by Kenneth Slessor, U. Smith, retrieved 13 December 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • The face of life, M. Parrish, 1959, retrieved 13 December 2020
  • MacInnes, Colin (1964), Australia and New Zealand, Time, inc, retrieved 13 December 2020
  • Time-Life Books; Time-Life Books (1967), Photography year, Time-Life Books, ISSN 0090-4406
  • Maurice Shadbolt; Ruhen, Olaf, joint author; National Geographic Society (U.S.). Special Publications Division (1971), Isles of the South Pacific ([2d ed.] ed.), Washington National Geographic Society, ISBN 978-0-87044-049-6 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • McGregor, Craig; McGregor, Craig, 1933-; Beal, David, 1936- (1968), Life in Australia, Southern Cross International, retrieved 13 December 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • National Geographic Society (U.S.). Special Publications Division (1968), Vanishing peoples of the earth, National Geographic Society, retrieved 13 December 2020
  • 1969 «The US Overseas» c/o Time-Life Books.
  • McGregor, Craig (1969), In the making, Thomas Nelson (Australia), ISBN 978-0-17-001819-7
  • Gray, Allen G, (ed.); Australian Photographic Society (1970), Camera in Australia., Reed, for the Australian Photographic Society, ISBN 978-0-589-07070-0 {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • McKay, Ian (Ian David) (1972), Living & partly living : housing in Australia, Thomas Nelson (Australia), ISBN 978-0-17-001908-8
  • Howe, Graham; Howe, Graham, 1950-; Australian Centre for Photography (1974), New photography Australia : a selective survey, Australian Centre for Photography, ISBN 978-0-909339-00-5{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Le Guay, Laurence; Le Guay, Laurence, (editor.) (1976), Australian photography. 1976, Globe Publishing Co, ISBN 978-0-9597359-0-1 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Fields, Jack; Moore, David, 1927-2003, (joint author.) (1977), Finland creates : the inter-relationship of land and design in Finland, Gummerus, ISBN 978-951-20-1299-2 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Publications about:

  • Moore, David; Thomas, Daniel, 1931-; Dupain, Max, 1911-1992 (1980), David Moore, Richmond Hill Press, ISBN 978-0-908157-05-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Moore, David; Jones, Jonah; McDonald, John, 1961-; Australia. Embassy (France) (1989), David Moore : photographe australien, Chapter & Verse, retrieved 13 December 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Moore, David; Auckland City Art Gallery; Australian Centre for Photography (1977), David Moore : retrospective exhibition 1940-1976, Auckland City Art Gallery, retrieved 13 December 2020


References

  1. ^ a b "Master photographer Moore dead at 75" by Sharon Verghis, The Sydney Morning Herald (25 January 2003)
  2. ^ Newton, Gael (1995). "Gladys Mary Owen b. 1 July 1889, Also known as Gladys Owen, Textile Artist / Fashion Designer, Printmaker, Painter". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 13 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday 31 Mar 1957, p.90
  4. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, The, 12 Aug 1954, p.26
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Moore, David; Thomas, Daniel, 1931-; Dupain, Max, 1911-1992 (1980), David Moore, Richmond Hill Press, ISBN 978-0-908157 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: checksum-05-1CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Moore, David; Newton, Gael (1992), "Max Dupain [Obituaries]", Art and Australia, 30 (2): 191, ISSN 0004-301X
  7. ^ a b c Auer, Michèle; Auer, Michel; Auer, Michèle. Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos jours; Ides et calendes (Publishers) (1997), Encyclopédie internationale des photographes des débuts à nos jours = Photographers encyclopedia international from its beginnings to the present, Ides et calendes, ISBN 978-2-8258-0126-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ a b c "Laurence Le Guay, among others, represent[s] the usual kind of "unusual angle". The approach of David Moore in 'Slum Kids', with its greater range of greys, is much more sympathetic, even if it does not convey spontaneity and therefore veracity. 'The Human Document' loses its quality when it becomes posed as Max Dupain knew well when he photographed "The Meat Queue". The Sydney Morning Herald Mon, Mar 28, 1949, p.27
  9. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday, 06 Aug 1950, supplement pps.4,5
  10. ^ Ziegler, Oswald L. (Oswald Leopold), 1900-1984 (1948), Australian photography 1947, Ziegler Gotham Publications, retrieved 13 December 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday, 29 Jan 1956, p.51
  12. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday, 03 Aug 1958, p.104
  13. ^ a b The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday 20 Jul 1958, p.99
  14. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 20 Aug 1958, p.12
  15. ^ Obituary, Sydney Morning Herald,  Thursday, August 13, 1959
  16. ^ {Citation | author1=Moore, David | title=Tourists on holiday at Lord Howe Island | journal=Walkabout | date=1961 | volume=27 | issue=10 | issn=0043-0064}}
  17. ^ Moore, David (1961), "Skiers at Thredbo Village, in Mt. Kosiusko National Park, New South Wales", Walkabout, 27 (6), ISSN 0043-0064
  18. ^ "'Family of Man' photograph show", The Age, Monday, 16 Feb 1959, p.10
  19. ^ a b Steichen, Edward; Sandburg, Carl; Norman, Dorothy; Lionni, Leo; Mason, Jerry; Stoller, Ezra; Museum of Modern Art (New York) (1955). The family of man: The photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation.
  20. ^ Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor); Reitz, Anke, (editor); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor) (2018), The Family of Man revisited: photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-1-78672-297-3 {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Sandeen, Eric J (1995), Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America (1st ed.), University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-1558-8
  22. ^ The Age, Tuesday, February 24, 1959, p.3
  23. ^ The Age,  Monday, March 16, 1959, p.2
  24. ^ The Age, Tuesday, March 17, 1959, p.2
  25. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday, March 31, 1959, p.13
  26. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald,  Saturday, April 04, 1959, p.13
  27. ^ The Age, Monday 23 Feb 1959, p.2
  28. ^ Craig McGregor, "They have begun to look deeply beneath the country's surface," The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday, 01 Jun 1968, p.17
  29. ^ Ann Galbally, The Age, Wednesday 10 Dec 1969, p.2
  30. ^ "Unguarded moments" by Christopher Allen, The Australian (17 July 2010); colour image at the National Gallery of Australia. Moore made a black-and-white negative from the transparency for an exhibition in 1970; see "Public Works: Migrants Arriving ..." by Bronwyn Watson, The Australian (24 October 2009); black-and-white image, National Gallery of Victoria
  31. ^ a b c d Newton, Gael; Moore, David, 1927-2003; National Gallery of Australia (2003), The spread of time : the photography of David Moore : National Gallery of Australia, 25 January - 21 April, 2003, National Gallery of Australia, retrieved 13 December 2020{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  32. ^ Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Henri Mallard (photographer); introduced by Max Dupain and Howard Tanner. Melbourne, Sun Books in association with Australian Centre for Photography, 1976. ISBN 0-7251-0232-2
  33. ^ Hall, Rodney, 1935- (1983). Australia : image of a nation, 1850-1950. Moore, David, 1927-2003. Sydney: Collins. ISBN 0-00-216447-7. OCLC 11290024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  34. ^ "David Moore, National Portrait Gallery". National Portrait Gallery (Australia). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  35. ^ "Revealing the humanity within". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  36. ^ Moore, David; Auckland City Art Gallery; Australian Centre for Photography (1977), David Moore : retrospective exhibition 1940-1976, Auckland City Art Gallery, retrieved 13 December 2020
  37. ^ Arnold Shore, "Two displays by painter", The Age, Tuesday 17 Mar 1959, p.2
  38. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 15 Jan 1960, p.12
  39. ^ World Exhibition of Photography: 1952, Lucerne, Switzerland. (1952). Luzern: Genossenschaft Photoausstellung.
  40. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday, 24 Jul 1955, p.75

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