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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9780975190173
Published: August 2008

Number of pages: 200
Width: 250 mm
Height: 300 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Piper Press Pty Ltd