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* 1998: ''Contemporary Australian Artists, The William Heimerman Collection''
* 1998: ''Contemporary Australian Artists, The William Heimerman Collection''
* 1997, September 25–October 13: Photographic Imaging College staff show
* 1997, September 25–October 13: Photographic Imaging College staff show
* 1996, November 7–24: ''20th Anniversary Exhibition'' [[Ralph Gibson]], Ian Lobb, Marcus Bunyan, [[Harry Callahan (photographer)|Harry Callahan]], Christopher Koller, [[Aaron Siskind]], Gayle Slater, [[Paul Caponigro]], Francis Busby, [[Hans Namuth]], Les Walkling, [[Lisette Model]], Greg Elms, [[Larry Clark]], Kylie Hamill, [[Wynn Bullock|Wyn Bullock]], Rosemary McKeoun, William Clift, Jeff Busby, [[Duane Michals]], [[Rennie Ellis]], Karen Rawady, [[Édouard Boubat|Edouard Boubat]], [[Carol Jerrems]], [[Eikoh Hosoe]], [[John Cato]], [[William Eggleston]], Robert Besanko, Paul Nadalin, [[John Divola]], Colin Vickery, [[Eliot Porter]], Warren Brenninger, [[Emmet Gowin]], [[Bill Henson]].
* 1996, November 7–24: ''20th Anniversary Exhibition''
* 1996, August 15–September 1: ''Australian Collection''
* 1996, August 15–September 1: ''Australian Collection''
* 1996, July 4–21, ''Photographs by David Showler and Glenn Sloggett'', co-curator: Louisa Ragas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.madgallery.com.au/artists/s/showler-david.html|title=Mad Gallery: David Showler|last=|first=|date=|website=Mad Gallery|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
* 1996, July 4–21, ''Photographs by David Showler and Glenn Sloggett'', co-curator: Louisa Ragas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.madgallery.com.au/artists/s/showler-david.html|title=Mad Gallery: David Showler|last=|first=|date=|website=Mad Gallery|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

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For the London gallery, see The Photographers' Gallery.

The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop (1973–2015) was an Australian photography gallery established in South Yarra, a suburb of Melbourne, and which ran almost continuously for 42 years. Its representation, in the 1970s and 1980s, of contemporary and mid-century, mostly American and some European original fine prints from major artists was influential on Australian audiences and practitioners, while a selection of the latter's work sympathetic to the quite strict gallery ethos was shown alternately and then dominated the program.

History

The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop was founded in 1973 at 344 Punt Road, South Yarra by Paul Cox, Ingeborg Tyssen, John F. Williams[1] and Rod McNicoll.[2] It was the second gallery devoted to photography to be established in the city after Brummels Gallery, which was started in 1972 less than a kilometre away,[3] and before the Church Street Photography Centre run by Joyce Evans.

Ian Lobb,[4][5][6] an Australian born in 1948, who had undertaken workshops with Ansel Adams and Paul Caponigro,[3][7] took over the Gallery in late 1974.[8] Also that year, Lobb was teaching photography at Coburg Technical School with Carol Jerrems,[9] and they met American Bill Heimerman (born January 13, 1950) who was teaching Englsh at the same institution; the two inspired his interest in photography. Lobb mounted his first exhibition as director at the beginning of 1975. He and Heimerman became co-directors of the gallery from the beginning of 1976. Beside some government funding, both financially supported their roles through teaching, Heimerman being next employed at Brighton Technical College, where he and other staff members established a photography program, and then at the Council of Adult Education.

Lobb and Heimerman showed some local work, but pursued high quality international, mainly American and some European, photographers for exhibitions.[10] The first exhibition of international photography at the gallery was that of Paul Caponigro in 1975 which sold 22 prints, after which success the gallery was closed for renovations and while Heimerman made a trip to the US to secure more shows.

Ethos

By showcasing the silver gelatin 'fine print’ Lobb and Heimerman hoped to improve Australian work by example,[11] as Lobb observed, "From 1975, every second show was an international show [. . .][12] The initial philosophy was simply to let people see the physical difference between the production of prints overseas and locally.”[11] In a period when feminist photography was on the ascendant, the gallery's perceived emphasis on the "American West Coast 'fine print' tradition" rather than subject matter, and its preponderance of male exhibitors, was decried by some Australian women photographers as "technocratic and patriarchal."[13] Beatrice Faust, an Age newspaper reviewer and noted women's activist however was supportive, and in 1987 hosted Beatrice Faust Curates: From Boubat to Fereday at the gallery featuring male and female photographers.[14][15]

Technical instruction was provided at the premises of the Gallery by Australian photographer Steven Lojewski in 1967,[16][17] and by 1977 Heimerman and Lobb had organised the first workshop to be conducted in Australia by an American photographer, Ralph Gibson, and sponsored a visit by William Clift, before lan Lobb left to pursue his own photography later that year, when Harry Callahan also conducted a workshop arranged by Heimerman.

Exhibitions

Solo

  • 2003 Neil Howe: Bodyscapes II[18][19]
  • 2002 David Tatnall: Himalaya[20]
  • 2002, July  Joel Meyerowitz: After September 11: Images from Ground Zero[21]
  • 2001 Julie Goodwin[22]
  • 2000 Neil Howe: Bodyscapes[18]
  • 2000, March, Lisa Saad: Ex[23]
  • 1999 Stuart Murdoch: Sight Insight Site[24]
  • 1999, June 10–27: Roxanne Oakley Scratching the Surface
  • 1998, December 3—20: Deanna Ross The Street is a Stage
  • 1998 Stuart Murdoch: The Big Picture[24]
  • 1997 Colin Vickery: Essence[25]
  • 1997, May 29–June 15, Kerry Clarke
  • 1997 May 8–25, Konrad Winkler, Family and Friends
  • 1997, April 17–May 4, Peter Leiss, Prague: Identification by Blood
  • 1997, March 27–April 13, John Cato Retrospective[26]
  • 1997, March 6–23 Konfir Kabo, Ordinary Dreams
  • 1996, November 28–December 15: Stuart Murdoch: ‘...as a log book stands to a journey’[24]
  • 1996, September 5–22, Marcus Bunyan
  • 1996, July 25–August 11, Allison Ross
  • 1996, May 23–June 9, Maxienne Young
  • 1996, May 9–19, Moses Tan
  • 1996, April 11–28, Lyn Pool
  • 1996, March 21–April 7, Colin Vickery: Presence[25]
  • 1996, February 29–March 17, Rennie Ellis: Further Observations[27]
  • 1996, February 8–25, Marion Hill
  • 1996 Glenn Guy: Ancient Images[28]
  • 1995 Harry Nankin: Acts of Ritual[29]
  • 1993 Greg Wayn[30]
  • 1993, 7-17 Oct, Marcus Bunyan: The naked man fears no pickpockets.[31]
  • 1992 Kim Percy: Points Of Departure[32]
  • 1988 Rod McNicol[33]
  • 1987 Warren Breninger[34]
  • 1986: Phillip Institute Media students curated shows of Emmet Gowin (April 3-27), John Gollings (May 1-25), Reece Vogel (June 5-29), Nicholas Nixon (July 31-August 24) and an Australian Group Show (July 3-27). Sponsorship for the program was provided by the Victorian Ministry for the Arts, Phillip Institute, and the United States Information Service.[35]
  • 1984 Christopher Koller[36]
  • 1984 Tim Handfield: Australian Colour Photographs[37]
  • 1983 Warren Breninger There is No Escape 1971–1983[38]
  • 1980 Lisette Model[39]
  • 1980 John Divola [40]
  • 1979 Greg Wayn[41]
  • 1979 Larry Clark[42]
  • 1979 Tim Handfield: Recent Work
  • 1978 Robert Besanko[43]
  • 1978 Carol Jerrems[44]
  • 1978 Christine Godden[45]
  • 1977 Ralph Gibson[46]
  • 1977 John Cato[47]
  • 1977 Wynn Bullock (1977),[48]
  • 1976 Marion Hardman[49]
  • 1976 Rennie Ellis and Carol Jerrems: Heroes and Anti-Heroes[50]
  • 1975 Carol Jerrems[51]

Group

  • 2003, March 13–23: Serendipity
  • 2002, December 2–22 Derrick Lee and Ray Moles The Rainforest and Beyond
  • 2002, October 10–27, Preteksen: combined works by Francesca Golotta and Maurizio Golotta
  • 2001 Circles of Confusion[52]
  • 2000: Millennium, incl. Colin Vickery[53]
  • 1998: Three Suites: Colin Vickery, Susan Purdy, John Billan
  • 1998: Contemporary Australian Artists, The William Heimerman Collection
  • 1997, September 25–October 13: Photographic Imaging College staff show
  • 1996, November 7–24: 20th Anniversary Exhibition Ralph Gibson, Ian Lobb, Marcus Bunyan, Harry Callahan, Christopher Koller, Aaron Siskind, Gayle Slater, Paul Caponigro, Francis Busby, Hans Namuth, Les Walkling, Lisette Model, Greg Elms, Larry Clark, Kylie Hamill, Wyn Bullock, Rosemary McKeoun, William Clift, Jeff Busby, Duane Michals, Rennie Ellis, Karen Rawady, Edouard Boubat, Carol Jerrems, Eikoh Hosoe, John Cato, William Eggleston, Robert Besanko, Paul Nadalin, John Divola, Colin Vickery, Eliot Porter, Warren Brenninger, Emmet Gowin, Bill Henson.
  • 1996, August 15–September 1: Australian Collection
  • 1996, July 4–21, Photographs by David Showler and Glenn Sloggett, co-curator: Louisa Ragas.[54]
  • 1996: Photographic Imaging College staff show
  • 1995: A Collectors Choice
  • 1990: Next Wave Festival show
  • 1978, July:  New Australian Photography
  • 1978, 18 May–11 June: Four Australian Women: Carol Jerrems, Christine Godden, Christine Cornish and Jenny Aitken

Other solo or group exhibitions at the Gallery[10][55] presented photographers Lynn Bender, Edouard Boubat, Francis Busby (1984), Jeff Busby, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Jack Cato, William Clift (1978), William Eggleston, Franco Fontana, Oliver Gagliani, Michael Goldsmith (1994, 1997), Paul Hill, Paul Hopper, Eikoh Hosoe, Graham Howe, Jean-Marc Le Péchoux, Peter Leiss, Ian Lobb, Steven Lojewski, Duane Michals, Boone Morrison, Eliot Porter, August Sander, Aaron Siskind, Ingeborg Tyssen, Les Walkling,[56] Brett Weston, and Konrad Winkler.

Closure

The gallery was closed and sold in 2015,[57] and after a period of failing health, Bill Heimerman died on October 1, 2017.[12][58]

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