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Details
- Date
- circa 1976
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 12.4 x 18.5 cm image; 24.0 x 30.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Dated u.l. verso "c76".
- Credit
- Purchased 1989
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 331.1989
- 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 2 exhibitions
John Williams Photographs (1989), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Aug 1989–01 Oct 1989
From the Street - Photographs From the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Apr 1996–14 Jul 1996
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Judy Annear, From the street: photographs from the collection, Sydney, 1996. no catalogue numbers
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Sandra Byron, John Williams Photographs, Sydney, 1989, 79 (illus.).
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