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Details
- Dates
- 1983-1984
printed 1985 - Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 40.7 x 50.7 cm image; 50.6 x 60.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.c. verso, pencil "...1983-84/ Mark Johnson/...Nov '85/ ...".
- Credit
- Gift of Terence Maloon 1989
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 85.1989
- Copyright
- © Mark Johnson
- Artist information
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Mark Johnson
Works in the collection
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About
Mark Johnson's practice spans both an informal documentary style and a more formalised aesthetic that arranges individual images within typological series. After graduating in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1970, Johnson later studied in London and became interested in photography. He held his first solo exhibition in 1978 at the Australian Centre for Photography. Johnson focused his camera lens on Sydney's beaches and buildings - from Coogee to Glebe and beyond - to systematically document various locations around the harbour and the city. The 'Sydney Beaches' series includes 17 photographs and the 'Sydney Buildings' series includes 24 photographs. Each beach image features a band of sky, a foreshore building and bathers strewn across white sand. By producing each image in black and white and repeating various compositional elements, Johnson asks the viewer to look beyond the obvious, to discover differences among similarities.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Fine and mostly sunny: photographs from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Sep 1991–01 Dec 1991
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Sandra Byron, City by the Sea, Sydney, 1993, back cover (illus.). cat.no. 61
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Jorge Calado, À Prova de Água Waterproof, Lisbon, 1998, [illus.]. plate no. 163
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