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== 'Hibernation' ==
== 'Hibernation' ==

Revision as of 03:37, 10 January 2021

Australian Centre for Photography
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Established1973 (1973)
Location72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
TypeCharity
FounderDavid Moore and Wes Stacey
Websiteacp.org.au

The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) is a not-for-profit photography gallery in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia that was established in 1973. ACP also provides part-time courses and community programs. It is one of the longest running contemporary art spaces in Australia.[1]

The Australian Centre for Photography has published Photofile, a biannual photography journal,[2] since 1983.

The ACP is a charity. Due to funding pressures during 2020, it ceased its actives from 16 December 2020 pending a restructure.[3]

Function

The Australian Centre for Photography provided a photography gallery[4] and also part-time courses[5] and community programs.

Photofile

The ACP has published Photofile, a photography journal, since 1983.[6]

Photofile was relaunched in 2017 under the new editorship of Daniel Boetker-Smith.[7]

History

On 23rd April, 1970, leading Australian photographer, David Moore wrote a letter to Wesley Stacey, Grant Mudford and David Beal.[8] In it he asked them to discuss with him the idea of a non-profit, national centre for photography to research, exhibit, publish, collect and advance photography. To examine the situation of photography in Australia he gathered a committee comprising practising photographers Wesley Stacey,[9][10] Laurence Le Guay and himself, senior curator of the Art Gallery of NSW and Sydney Morning Herald art critic, Daniel Thomas. and the director of an architectural and planning firm, Peter Keys, with support from arts commentator Craig McGregor.[11] In July 1973,[4] the Visual Arts Board accepted that there was a need for such a body in Australia and part-funded their proposal to set up a permanent photographic gallery in Sydney.[12]

Margaret Whitlam opened its first gallery in Paddington Street, Sydney, in 1974[1] with the initial exhibition Aspects of Australian Photography. In 1981 it moved to 257 Oxford Street, Paddington[1] and in 2015 it moved again to 72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney.[13][14][15]

The ACP produced the first major retrospectives of Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and Mervin Bishop.[4] It has also held exhibitions by Stephen Dupont,[16] Elif Suyabatmaz and Markus Andersen,[17] Bill Henson,[4] Tracey Moffatt,[4] William Yang,[4] Trent Parke,[4] as well as other exhibitions by Cotton[18] and Dupain.[19]

Exhibitions

[20]

Year Dates Title Participants Ref
1974 21 Nov - 18 Jan Aspects of Australian Photography Ian Dodd, Ken Middleton, Grant Mudford, Max Pam, Phillip Quirk, John Walsh [21][22][23]
1975 22 Jan - 15 Feb A Statement of Fact - Henry King 1955-1923 Henry King [20][24][25]
1975 22 Jan - 15 Feb Graham McCarter Graham McCarter [20][24][25]
1975 18 Feb - 10 Apr A Question of Attitude Richard Harris, John Williams [26]
1975 18 Mar - 10 Apr Selected Masters Robert Capa, Werner Bischof, August Sander, Edward Steichen, F.M. Sutcliffe [27]
1975 18 Mar - 10 Apr Work in Progress Various
1975 15 Apr - 10 May Time and Space Greg Weight and Roger Scott [28]
1975 13 May - 14 Jun Elliott Erwitt - Photographs and Anti- photographs Elliott Erwitt
1975 17 Jun - 12 Jul Instant Images - Polaroid progress Various [29]
1975 June Viewpoints Ansel Adams, David Baila, Walker Evans, Yousuf Karsh, Ulrich Mark, Sarah Moon, Lennart Missun, Kishin Shinoyama], Jeanloup Sieff, Josef Sudek, Olivieru Juscan, Minor White and others
1975 16 Jul - 16 Aug The Road Wesley Stacey
1975 16 Jul - 16 Aug Time series Sue Ford
1975 19 Aug - 20 Sep Snapshots
1975 23 Sep - 18 Oct The Californian Aesthetic Ed Douglas
1975 21 Oct - 29 Nov Max Dupain Retrospective 1930-1975 Max Dupain [30]
1975 27 Dec - 17 Jan Melbourne Viewpoints '75
1976 17 Feb - 13 Mar From the Land John Cato and Laurie Wilson
1976 16 Mar - 10 Apr Sidetripping Charles Gatewood
1976 16 Mar - 10 Apr Viewpoints Trevern Dawes, Richard Phillips, John Porter
1976 13 Apr - 8 May South African Report David Goldblatt and Robert Ashton
1976 11 May - 5 June Photographs of Children David Cubby
1976 8 Jun - 3 Jul David Moore Retrospective 1940-76 David Moore
1976 6 - 31 Jul Christine Godden Christine Godden
1976 6 - 31 Jul Ann Noon Ann Noon
1976 3 - 28 Aug Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge Henri Mallard
1976 3 - 28 Aug Viewpoints Gary Grealy, Katharine Rogers, Ian Tudor
1976 31 Aug - 25 Sep Just Another Sunrise? The impact of bauxite mining on an aboriginal

community

Jon Rhodes
1976 31 Aug - 25 Sep Polaroid Experience Charles Eames, Judith Eglington, Sam Haskins, Ikko Rita, Kohmann, Michael Kostinkar, Monique Jaet, Francois Lamy etc
1976 28 Sep - 23 Oct Farm Security Administration FSA
1976 28 Sep - 23 Oct Diane Arbus Diane Arbus
1976 26 Oct - 20 Nov Fifty Photographs Edward Weston
1976 26 Oct - 20 Nov Shadow People Leon Saunders
1976 23 Nov - 11 Dec Selected Photographs Paul Caponigro
1976 23 Nov - 11 Dec The Other Women Barry Kay
1976 14 Dec - 22 Jan Ten Photographers

- Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne,

Sydney

Stan Ciccone, Sandy Edwards, Steven Lojewski, Virginia Coventry, Gerrit Fokkema, Otten O'Malley,

Paul Hopper

1977 25 Jan - 19 Feb American Photographs '75 Grant Mudford
1977 9 Mar - 27 Apr Bent Photography Harry Bowers, Ellen Brooks, Steve Colling, Robert Cumming, Steve Fitch, Jack Fulton, Robert Heinecken, Richard Misrach, Carol Tranter (USA West Coast)
1977 6 Apr - 7 May Derry Moore and Stella Snead Derry Moore (UK), Stella Snead (USA)
1977 11 May - 4 Jun Lee Friedlander Lee Friedlander
1977 11 May - 4 Jun Recent Photographs Douglas Hollely
1977 8 Jun - 9 Jul Sydneyphiles and Clermont, Queensland 1916 Willy Young
1977 13 Jul - 20 Aug Ian Dodd 1967-77 Ian Dodd
1977 24 Aug - 24 Sep Jan Saudek
1977 24 Aug - 24 Sep Australian New Work Anthony Green, Sandra Irvine, Merryle Johnson, Julie Millowick
1977 28 Sep - 29 Oct Diane Arbus Diane Arbus
1977 27 Nov - 3 Dec Athol Shmith Athol Shmith
1977 27 Nov - 3 Dec Paul Cox Paul Cox
1977 7 Dec - 21 Jan Bent Photography Harry Bowers, Ellen Brooks, Steve Colling, Robert Cumming, Steve Fitch, Jack Fulton, Robert Heinecken, Richard Misrach, Carol Tranter (USA West Coast)
1978 Jan - Feb Rennie Ellis, Godwin Bradbeer and Warren Breninger
1978 Mar - Apr Laurence Le Guay, Stephen Roach
1979 May- Jun Herbert Ponting, Frank Hurley and William Clift
1980 Jan - Feb Five French Photographers Bernard Plossu, D.H. Seylan, Mercelle Dupuis
1980 Mar Three Australians Fiona Hall, Brian Thompson, David Blount
1980 5 Apr - 2 May Robert Cumming Robert Cumming
1980 7 May - 7 Jul 8 South Australian Photographers Ed Douglas, Wayne Fimo, Trevor Kenyon, Paul Krieg, Joseph McGlennon, Leonie Reisberg, Rod Trinca, Andrew Zummo

'Hibernation'

On 19 November, 2020 the Australian Centre for Photography, announced it would go into a 'hibernation' from 16 December "due to a cash crunch brought on by COVID-19 lockdown, the shift to smartphone photography and funding cuts.". A restructure of the organisation would protect it from "ongoing financial losses"; ACP Chairman, Michael Blomfield said: "our organisation will not receive any operational funding from federal or state funding bodies for the next three years as a minimum, it is clear that continuing to operate in our current form is a pathway to extinction.”[31]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Australian Centre for Photography". Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Australian Centre for Photography [closed at this location]". Time Out Sydney. Retrieved 19 June 2018.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Linda Morris "Pathway to extinction", The Sydney Morning Herald, November 19, 2020
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Australian Centre For Photography". SBS (Australian TV channel). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  5. ^ "Australian Centre for Photography - Create NSW". New South Wales government. 15 November 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  6. ^ Australian Centre for Photography (1983), Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, ISSN 0811-0859
  7. ^ "Photofile Magazine Relaunch". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  8. ^ Meagher, Toby (June 2013). "Developing Photography: A History of the Australian Centre for Photography 1973-2013. A paper was written for a Masters in Art Administration at COFA". photo-web. Gael Newton. Retrieved 17 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Australia, National Gallery of. "The Spread of Time: The photography of David Moore". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  10. ^ "David Moore, National Portrait Gallery". National Portrait Gallery (Australia). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  11. ^ "Revealing the humanity within". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  12. ^ "New body will promote photography as art form", The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue, Sep 25, 1973 p.12
  13. ^ "Australian Centre for Photography to Leave Paddington". Concrete Playground. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  14. ^ "Australian Centre for Photography Project Space Gallery". Time Out Sydney. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  15. ^ "Australian Centre for Photography nets $5m at auction". The Australian Financial Review. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  16. ^ "The Outside Land". The Guardian. 3 July 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  17. ^ ""Mirrored" at the Australian Centre for Photography". Broadsheet. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  18. ^ Blake, Elissa (2 May 2015). "The Photograph and Australia: behind Olive Cotton's iconic and sensual photograph". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  19. ^ O'Brien, Kerrie (10 May 2017). "Forget Dupain's Sunbaker, the beach represents atrocities as much as a playground". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  20. ^ a b c Daniel Thomas, "Deadpan pictures", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 30 Jan 1975, p.7
  21. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald,  Thursday, November 21, 1974, p.7
  22. ^ advertisement, The Sydney Morning Herald,  Saturday, December 07, 1974, p.35
  23. ^ "The camera finds a home', The Sydney Morning Herald,  Saturday, November 23, 1974, p.12
  24. ^ a b Daniel Thomas, "Ocker and aesthete", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 06 Feb 1975, p.7
  25. ^ a b shown in Aril 1975 at the new George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, see: Maureen Gilchrist, "Emphasis of splendours of the past", The Age, Friday 04 Apr 1975, p.2
  26. ^ Daniel Thomas, "A contrast in photography," The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, 20 Feb 1975, p.7
  27. ^ Daniel Thomas, "Refreshing Friend," The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, 27 Mar 1975, p.7
  28. ^ Daniel Thomas, "A major talent emerges", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 24 Apr 1975, p.7
  29. ^ Daniel Thomas, "Revelation of galleries' tastes", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, 03 Jul 1975, p.7
  30. ^ Leslie Walford, "Camera art", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 03 Jul 1975, p.7
  31. ^ "Australian Centre for Photography | ACP HIBERNATION". Retrieved 17 December 2020.

External links

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