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Details
- Date
- 1980
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- twenty eight gelatin silver photographs
- Dimensions
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28 photographs: each photograph 8.2 x 12.1 cm image/sheet; 32.9 x 85.5 cm overall image; 46.1 x 98.2 cm frame
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a-bb - 28 photographs, 8.2 x 12.1 cm, image/sheet each photograph
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 1981
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 179.1981
- Copyright
- © John F Williams
- Lady Warwick Fairfax Award
- Winner - 1980/81
- 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.
This work won the Lady (Warwick) Fairfax Awward in 1981 and was acquired by the Gallery in 1981.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Fairfax Award Exhibition 1981, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 28 Feb 1981–22 Mar 1981
John Williams Photographs (1989), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Aug 1989–01 Oct 1989
What is this thing called photography?, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Jun 1999–29 Jul 1999
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Judy Annear, What is this thing called photography?, Sydney, 1999. no catalogue numbers
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Sandra Byron, John Williams Photographs, Sydney, 1989, 99 (illus.).
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