Title
Sandra, Tom, Aerial, Rose (the cat), kittens - Newtown December 1979
1979
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1979
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- twenty eight gelatin silver photographs
- Dimensions
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28 photographs: each photograph 8.4 x 12.4 cm image/sheet; 33.5 x 87.3 cm overall image; 46.1 x 98.2 cm frame
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a-bb - 28 photographs, 8.4 x 12.4 cm, image/sheet each photograph
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1981
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 178.1981
- Copyright
- © John F Williams
- Artist information
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John F Williams
Works in the collection
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About
John F Williams is not simply a street photographer; although he views the world with the quirky and spontaneous gaze so often associated with that genre. Williams began photographing in the 1950s, and has worked variously as an aeronautical engineer, magazine editor, historian and photography lecturer to support his art. Between 1973 and 1977 he was the photography critic for 'The Australian', and was appointed Senior Lecturer in Photography at Sydney College of the Arts in 1976. Williams' photographs are impeccably framed, with often just a limb, head or shadow of a human subject trapped in a visual play with text, signs and the formal elements of landscape. Reflections and mirrors are recurring motifs in his work, often used to abstract reality in layers of form. His more recent work develops techniques for recognising the passage of time in photography, including photographic series and photomontage.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Project 38- Re-constructed Vision, Contemporary work with photography (1981), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Jul 1981–23 Aug 1981
Seeing is believing - the art in photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1985–19 Jan 1986
John Williams Photographs (1989), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Aug 1989–01 Oct 1989
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Sandra Byron, John Williams Photographs, Sydney, 1989, 97 (illus.).
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Gael Newton, Re-constructed Vision: Contemporary work with photography, Sydney, 1981, (illus.). cat.no. 56
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Ursula Prunster, Seeing is believing: the art in photography, Sydney, 1985. cat.no. 44
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