Cover art for Twelve Australian Photo Artists
Published
Piper Press, August 2008
ISBN
9780975190173
Format
Hardcover, 200 pages
Dimensions
30cm × 25cm

Twelve Australian Photo Artists

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Twelve Australian Photo Artists presents Australia's most important practitioners of photography, photo media and photographic arts including the late Rosemary Laing and Destiny Deacon. (2024).

This hardcover, high quality book explores the work of each artist through an in-depth interview and essay for each, where they discussed the selection and presentation of images to provide first-hand and inspiring accounts of their practice.

It includes:

Pat Brassington's work on dream and memory fragments

Brenda Croft's investigation of the Indigenous Australian experience

Destiny Deacon's satire on racist stereotypes

Simryn Gill's experiences of history and geography through making and circulating photographs

Bill Henson's ambiguous zone of adolescent desire in works of imagination and sensibility

Rosemary Laing's iconic large-scale scenes that dramatise human interaction with the natural world

Tracey Moffatt's fusion of violence and humour in images full of artifice that ultimately present real and important subjects

Debra Phillips evokes the past reverberating in the present

Jacky Redgate investigates vision, space and memory

Julie Rrap's iconic, energetic and playful work of strange incongruities and unexpected twists and turns

David Stephenson's search for a photographic sublime and Anne Zahalka's exploration of the line between the natural and the artificial

This book is written by Blair French and Daniel Palmer with editing by Ray Tindale and Peggy Mares.

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