Australian Centre for Photography explained

Australian Centre for Photography
Location:72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Type:Charity
Founder:David Moore and Wes Stacey

The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) was a not-for-profit photography gallery in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia that was established in 1973 and which also provided part-time courses and community programs.

One of the longest running contemporary art spaces in Australia,[1] after a shutdown from 16 December 2020 pending a restructure,[2] it was acquired in October 2022 by the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences and relaunched as Powerhouse Photography.[3] Powerhouse will continue and expand on ACP programs with commissions, acquisitions, publications, learning and research activities dedicated to the promotion and development of photography in Australia.

The Australian Centre for Photography published Photofile, a biannual photography journal,[4] from 1983.

Function

The Australian Centre for Photography provided a photography gallery[5] and also part-time courses[6] and community programs. Amongst its initiatives were its hosting the Australian Video Festival; presenting public talks by such speakers as Victor Burgin; running an auction in support of Aboriginal protest against the Australian Bicentenary; and administrating displays in Sydney streets and railway stations of posters by Barbara Kruger.[7] [8] [9]

Photofile

Tamara Winikoff, director of ACP (1982–1985) began publication of Photofile, a small community newspaper in 1983 which became a significant journal showcasing Australian photography in a glossy, large format (44 cm) and hosting the critiques and debates surrounding it. It was issued 3 times yearly from 1991.[10]

Editors included Mark Hinderaker, Mark Johnson, Ingeborg Tyssen & Tamara Winnikoff (with Robert Tuckwell for one issue) (1983); Mark Johnson (1984–85); Geoffrey Batchen (1985–86); Catherine Chinnery (1987); Catherine Chinnery & Carole Hampshire (1987/88); Ross Gibson (Guest Editor, 1988); Helen Grace (Guest Editor, 1988); Adrian Martin (Guest Editor, 1988); Robert Nery (1988–89); Elizabeth Gertsakis (Guest Editor, 1989); Fiona Macdonald (1990); Martin Thomas (1991–93); Jo Holder (1993–94); George Alexander (1995–97); Jacqueline Millner & Annemarie Jonson (Guest Editors, 1996); Bruce James (1997–99); Blair French (Managing Editor 1998–9);[11] Francisco Fisher (Guest Editor 2000).

Without capital to increase circulation to attract more advertising for its funding, its survival in the 1990s was threatened. Alasdair Foster as director (1998–2011) secured increased financial support, enabling its print run to be increased and for the first time the magazine was distributed nation-wide through newsagents.

From 2010 Photofile was issued as a digital-only publication until Kon Gouriotis began as Director in early 2012 and a print version was relaunched in March 2013. The journal was again relaunched in 2017 under the new editorship of Daniel Boetker-Smith.[12]

An anthology of essays from Photofile was published in 1999 as Photo files : an Australian photography reader edited by Blair French, with a preface by Gael Newton, then Senior Curator of Photography at the Australian National Gallery.

History

On 23 April 1970, leading Australian photographer, David Moore wrote a letter to Wesley Stacey, Grant Mudford and David Beal.[13] In it he asked them to discuss with him the idea of a non-profit, national centre for photography to research, exhibit, publish, collect and advance photography. To examine the situation of photography in Australia he led a committee of other practising photographers Wesley Stacey,[14] [15] Laurence Le Guay, senior curator of the Art Gallery of NSW and Sydney Morning Herald art critic, Daniel Thomas. and the director of an architectural and planning firm, Peter Keys, with support from arts commentator Craig McGregor.[16] In July 1973,[5] the Visual Arts Board accepted that there was a need for such a body in Australia and part-funded their proposal to set up a permanent photographic gallery in Sydney.[17]

Venues

Paddington Street

Margaret Whitlam opened the first ACP gallery in a corner terrace refurbished by architect Michael Standley at 76a Paddington Street, Sydney, on 21 November 1974 with the initial exhibition Aspects of Australian Photography under inaugural director Graham Howe. That exhibition, expanded with ten more photographers' work to comprise Godwin Bradbeer, Warren Breninger, John Cato, Ian Dodd, Max Dupain, Rennie Ellis, Richard Harris, David Moore, Grant Mudford, Jon Rhodes, Roger Scott, Wesley Stacey, John Walsh and Richard Woldendorp, but with Max Pam, who was in the original line-up, excluded due to perceived sensitivities about his explicit imagery made in SE Asia, toured to Australian embassies and high commissions in Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Burma, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa (given the end of apartheid) in 1975 and 1976, supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs.[18] Women photographers were not included the initial exhibition of Aspects, nor its touring version, despite the added participants, prompting Deborah Ely, a later director of ACP to comment;

It is a characteristic of the early years of the ACP that its governing culture was exceptionally male ... "debate" between the founding fathers of ACP and feminists grew up over the years and persisted into the 1980s.[18]

Oxford Street

The organisation subsequently changed the location of its gallery and offices several times. Christine Godden as director oversaw the moving of the Centre in 1981 to Dobell House at 257 Oxford Street, Paddington but in 1989, subsequent director Denise Robertson, previously of Melbourne University Union's George Paton Gallery, finding the Centre suffering from a deficit and a declining public profile, foreshadowed another relocation due to Paddington becoming "too expensive".[19] It shared space with the Sydney Dance Company theatre at Pier 4/5 refurbished at a cost of $16 million to create a venue "second only to the Sydney Opera House", as announced by the Ministry for the Arts in May 1991.[20]

Director Deborah Ely resisted, later saying; "when I joined ACP four years ago we were committed to a relocation at Pier 4/5. It seemed a real pity given this fantastic location and the fact that we'd been in Paddington for 20 years. I thought we should stay and make the most of the existing site."[21] Accordingly, the Oxford Street premises were upgraded after mediation by NSW Ministry for the Arts persuaded the building's vendor the Dobell Foundation, which, with the help of Premier Neville Wran, had purchased the site from the NSW Fire Brigade for $1.5 million, mortgaged it to ACP for $750,000 a 50 рег cent discount, which Ely expected to pay off within 10 years. Its reopening increased the growing number of photography galleries in Sydney with the Byron Mapp Gallery, also in Oxford Street, Stills Gallery in Elizabeth St., the Josef Lebovic Gallery in Paddington Street and, from 15 February 1996, Toast II in Commonwealth Street. Architect James Grose refurbished the ACP by opening the facade up to the street and adding a two-storey extension with a central staircase in a construction by John Lewis and Luigi Rosselli, which integrated galleries, library, darkrooms, studio, digital imaging facilities, specialist bookstall and a restaurant, the latter through an arrangement negotiated protractedly over 1993–1994 variously with entrepreneur Rene Rivkin with caterer Maggi Agostini, then Victoria Alexander and others, to lease the shopfront, with the ACP offices and gallery behind.[22] [23] [24]

Chippendale

A temporary closure in September 1993 saw refurbishments begin, with further assistance from the Ministry of $50,000 and also its loan of $300,000. In the interim the gallery opened at 27–31 Abercrombie St., Chippendale (6 km closer to the CBD and now housing Galerie pompom) under the name Temporary Hoarding to continue with a few shows into November 1994,[25] including Reflex (12–27 August),[26] sustained by curator/publicist Susan Charlton organising brochures and "Sydney Artbus" public tours.[27] It was not until March 1996 that NSW Premier Bob Carr reopened the centre and launched its first show since December 1994, Inheritance,[28] [29] and its café, which was ultimately a joint venture between Stefano Manfredi of Restaurant Manfredi and Barry McDonald (B & J Lizard produce) and named La Mensa.[30] [31]

Darlinghurst

From 2011, as photography students increasing turned to courses in tertiary institutions for instruction, revenue from the ACP's film-based workshops continued to fall, and in 2015, the centre was forced to sell its building.[32] It rented accommodation at 72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney.[33] [34] [35] Its current location is at 21 Foley St, Darlinghurst, a kilometre west along Oxford Street from number 72, and closer to the CBD.

Directors

Initiatives

The ACP exhibition program delivered the first major retrospectives of Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and Mervyn Bishop. An early opportunity for photographers initiated by the ACP in 1978 was the Colonial Sugar Refinery Project, a commission for six Australian practitioners, Micky Allan, Sandra Edwards, Mark Johnson, Graham McCarter, Lewis Morley and Jon Rhodes, to freely make artistic and documentary work relating to the CSR site at Pyrmont. After its successful exhibition and publication the project was extended into the 1980s and inspired other art-based, non-commercial collaborations with industry. Signature Works - 25th Anniversary Exhibition, in 1999 included works by Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Carol Jerrems, Maria Kozic, Tracey Moffatt, Max Pam, Patricia Piccinini, Jon Rhodes, Michael Riley, and Anne Zahalka selected by 25 Australian photographic curators, writers, artists and academics, and was a contemporary survey indicative of the national reach of the centre.

2020 closure

On 19 November 2020 the Australian Centre for Photography, announced it would go into a 'hibernation' from 16 December "due to a cash crunch brought on by COVID-19 lockdown, the shift to smartphone photography and funding cuts.". A restructure of the organisation would protect it from "ongoing financial losses"; ACP Chairman, Michael Blomfield said: "our organisation will not receive any operational funding from federal or state funding bodies for the next three years as a minimum, it is clear that continuing to operate in our current form is a pathway to extinction."[36] Blomfield, decried the decision as a 'painful one', with 21 staff affected.

Coincident with the closure of the ACP, planning was taking place for a National Centre for Photography, with galleries, library, darkroom, an archive and educationprogram, to be opened in regional Ballarat, funded with $6.7 million from the Victorian state government. The city is home to the Ballarat International Foto Biennale which has been running since 2005.

Powerhouse Photography

Two years after the Australian Centre for Photography had been mothballed and had laid off staff due to a shortage of funds and COVID restrictions, and after a series of community consultations, in October 2022 it was announced that Sydney's Powerhouse, the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, had acquired the Australian Centre for Photography in an agreement in which Powerhouse acquired ACP's photography archive and fund, worth approximately $1.6 million. New South Wales Minister for the Arts Ben Franklin noted that;

The Powerhouse Photography initiative declares photography’s cultural value at the precise moment we may have forgotten its significance in art and design, through to science, medicine, law, communication and commerce.
It operates under the new name of Powerhouse Photography,[37] which will continue and expand on ACP programs with commissions, acquisitions, publications, learning and research activities dedicated to the promotion and development of photography in Australia. Funds from the Australian Centre for Photography will provide a photography research fellowship, tertiary internship program, contemporary photography acquisition program, and industry day.[38]

An Advisory group has been formed, and first convened in October 2022, to oversee Powerhouse Photography and to industry connections, and inform curatorship. It is co-chaired by photographer and University of Technology Sydney Associate Professor, Cherine Fahd and Powerhouse Senior Curator Sarah Rees. The panel comprises photographer, filmmaker and ACP board member Merilyn Fairskye; Friends of ACP member Lisa Moore; photographer Garry Trinh; photographer Hugh Stewart; photographer Meng-Yu Yan; photographer Tom Blachford; Powerhouse Director First Nations Emily McDaniel; Powerhouse Head of Curatorial Jacqui Strecker; and Powerhouse Artistic Associate Zan Wimberley.

The 50th anniversary of ACP occurs in 2024, and Powerhouse has plans to deliver a curated digital program to celebrate it, and through its publishing arm, Powerhouse Publishing, to release a major publication on Australian photography. Powerhouse Chief Executive Lisa Havilah recognised the long-term achievements of the organisation;

For nearly 50 years, ACP has cemented the importance of photography in contemporary culture by championing a diverse range of artists. It’s our privilege to play a part in shaping the future of photographic practice in Australia, building on the exceptional work of ACP, under the expert guidance of the Powerhouse Photography Advisory Group. We thank the ACP’s Board of Directors and Friends of the ACP for entrusting us with this responsibility and opportunity.[39]

Exhibitions held by the Australian Centre for Photography

YearDatesTitleParticipantsRef
197421 Nov18 JanAspects of Australian PhotographyIan Dodd, Ken Middleton, Grant Mudford, Max Pam, Phillip Quirk, John Walsh[40] [41] [42]
197522 Jan15 FebA Statement of Fact-Henry King 1955–1923Henry King[43] [44] [45]
197522 Jan15 FebGraham McCarterGraham McCarter
197518 Feb10 AprA Question of AttitudeRichard Harris, John Williams[46]
197518 Mar10 AprSelected MastersRobert Capa, Werner Bischof, August Sander, Edward Steichen, F.M. Sutcliffe[47]
1975 18 Mar10 Apr Work in ProgressVarious
197515 Apr10 MayTime and SpaceGreg Weight and Roger Scott[48]
197513 May14 JunElliott Erwitt-Photographs and Anti- photographsElliott Erwitt
197517 Jun12 JulInstant Images-Polaroid progressVarious[49]
1975JuneViewpointsAnsel Adams, David Baila, Walker Evans, Yousuf Karsh, Ulrich Mark, Sarah Moon, Lennart Missun, Kishin Shinoyama, Jeanloup Sieff, Josef Sudek, Olivieru Juscan, Minor White and others
197516 Jul16 AugThe RoadWesley Stacey
197516 Jul16 AugTime seriesSue Ford
197519 Aug20 SepSnapshots
197523 Sep18 OctThe Californian AestheticEd Douglas
197521 Oct29 NovMax Dupain Retrospective 1930–1975Max Dupain[50]
197527 Dec17 JanMelbourne Viewpoints '75
197617 Feb13 MarFrom the LandJohn Cato and Laurie Wilson[51]
197616 Mar10 AprSidetrippingCharles Gatewood[52]
197616 Mar10 AprViewpointsTrevern Dawes, Richard Phillips, John Porter
197613 Apr8 MaySouth African ReportDavid Goldblatt and Robert Ashton
197611 May5 JunePhotographs of ChildrenDavid Cubby
19768 Jun3 JulDavid Moore Retrospective 1940–76David Moore[53]
1976631 JulChristine GoddenChristine Godden
1976631 JulAnn NoonAnn Noon
1976328 AugBuilding the Sydney Harbour BridgeHenri Mallard
1976328 AugViewpointsGary Grealy, Katharine Rogers, Ian Tudor
197631 Aug25 SepJust Another Sunrise? The impact of bauxite mining on an aboriginal communityJon Rhodes[54]
197631 Aug25 SepPolaroid ExperienceCharles Eames, Judith Eglington, Sam Haskins, Ikko Rita, Kohmann, Michael Kostinkar, Monique Jaet, Francois Lamy etc.
197628 Sep23 OctFarm Security AdministrationFSA
197628 Sep23 OctDiane ArbusDiane Arbus
197626 Oct20 NovFifty PhotographsEdward Weston
197626 Oct20 NovShadow PeopleLeon Saunders
197623 Nov11 DecSelected PhotographsPaul Caponigro
197623 Nov11 DecThe Other WomenBarry Kay[55]
197614 Dec22 JanTen Photographers-Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, SydneyStan Ciccone, Sandy Edwards, Steven Lojewski, Virginia Coventry, Gerrit Fokkema, Otten O'Malley, Paul Hopper
197725 Jan19 FebAmerican Photographs '75Grant Mudford[56] [57]
19779 Mar27 AprBent PhotographyHarry Bowers, Ellen Brooks, Steve Colling, Robert Cumming, Steve Fitch, Jack Fulton, Robert Heinecken, Richard Misrach, Carol Tranter (USA West Coast)[58]
19776 Apr7 MayDerry Moore and Stella SneadDerry Moore (UK), Stella Snead (USA)[59] [60] [61]
197711 May4 JunLee FriedlanderLee Friedlander
197711 May4 JunRecent PhotographsDouglas Hollely
19778 Jun9 JulSydneyphiles and Clermont, Queensland 1916Willy Young[62]
197713 Jul20 AugIan Dodd 1967–77Ian Dodd
197724 Aug24 SepJan Saudek
197724 Aug24 SepAustralian New WorkAnthony Green, Sandra Irvine, Merryle Johnson, Julie Millowick
197728 Sep29 OctDiane ArbusDiane Arbus
197727 Nov3 DecAthol ShmithAthol Shmith[63]
197727 Nov3 DecPaul CoxPaul Cox
19777 Dec21 JanBent PhotographyHarry Bowers, Ellen Brooks, Steve Colling, Robert Cumming, Steve Fitch, Jack Fulton, Robert Heinecken, Richard Misrach, Carol Tranter (USA West Coast)[64]
1978Jan-FebRennie Ellis, Godwin Bradbeer and Warren Breninger
1978Mar-AprLaurence Le Guay, Stephen Roach[65]
1978May- JunHerbert Ponting, Frank Hurley and William Clift
197821 JunDavid Mist[66]
1978OctJohn Stockdale[67]
1978OctAustraliaJon Rhodes
1978Nov-2 DecRetrospectiveHarry Callahan[68]
1978 Nov- 2 DecPortraitsCarol Jerrems
1980Jan-FebFive French PhotographersBernard Plossu, D.H. Seylan, Mercelle Dupuis
1980MarThree AustraliansFiona Hall, Brian Thompson, David Blount
19805 Apr2 MayRobert CummingRobert Cumming
19807 May7 Jul8 South Australian PhotographersEd Douglas, Wayne Fimo, Trevor Kenyon, Paul Krieg, Joseph McGlennon, Leonie Reisberg, Rod Trinca, Andrew Zummo
1980to 16 AugThe Suspicious Image Giorgio Colombo[69]
198114 JanFour and a Half Months in the NorthGlen O'Malley (QLD)
198118 FebCazneaux' Sydney 1904-

1934

Harold Cazneaux
19816 MarA Day in the Life of Australiagroup show
198117 Apr6 MayLiving Room Portraits 1979-'81John Williams
1981JulySelections from the Polaroid Collectiongroup show
198112 Aug12 SepFifteen Australian PhotographersWesley Stacey, Fiona Hall, Peter Elliston, Ingeborg Tyssen, Peter Charuk, Dr Charles Gabriel, Henri Murray
1981SepIn and Out of Space
1981SepPhotographs from the Awesome Universe
1981OctDeath ValleyJohn Gollings
1981OctSydney ForeshoresMark Johnson
1981NovLong BeachGrant Mudford
1981NovEleven Years in AsiaMax Pam
1981NovIndia and the EnigmaJon Rhodes
1981Dec-JanFour Australian Picture MakersWayne Fimere, Arthur Georgeson, Fiona Hall, Graham Howe
1982FebHeatwaveDavid Moore, Jill White, David Parker, Philip Quirk, Willy Young, Robert McFarlane, Max Dupain
1982FebRecent PhotographsPeter Charuk
1982MarC.S.R.Photography Project-Hunter ValleyCoalgroup show
1982MarThis Land of TimeEd Douglas
1982MayCarole Conde and Karl BeveridgeCarole Conde, Karl Beveridge (Canada)[70]
1982JulSwiss Photographers from 1840 until Todaygroup show
1982JulViewpointsCarolyn Johns, Margaret Olah
1982AugWestern Australian Photographers7 photographers
198217–26 SepDavid StephensonDavid Stephenson
1982Aug-SepViewpointsAmanda Holt
1982Aug-SepAmerican PhotographsMark Burgin
1982Aug-SepPhotographic Works 81–82Geoff Kleem
1982Photographs 1966–1982Penny Tweedie
1982Colour WorksAnn Noon, Matthew Quaass
19835 JanJim Sheldon (USA)[71]
198629 Jan27 MarThe Melbourne StageSeham Abi Elias, Rozalind Drummond, Cassandra Lehman, Fiona MacDonald
19865 Mar13 AprTopographies and TracesPeter Elliston
19865 Mar13 AprThief's JournalJulie Brown-Rrap
198616 Apr11 MayRobert MapplethorpeRobert Mapplethorpe
198614 May16 JunElsewhere (Biennale)Graeme Hare, Jacky Redgate, Robyn Stacey, Anne Zahalka, Wayne Fimo
198614 May16 JunGoldBrian Thompson
198618 Jun20 JulColourMark Kimber, Sue Longbottom, Tony Nott, Tim Handfield, Graeme Johnson
198618 Jun20 JulPentimentoRobyn Outram, Suzi Coyle, Tanya Sparke, Melody Cruickshank
198630 Jul24 AugThe Hand and the PhotographRichard Dunn, Mike Parr, Tim Maguire, Adrienne Gaha, John Young, Ruth Waller
198630 Jul24 AugThe First Australian Video Festival
198627 Aug28 SepWork SitesSteven Lojewski
198627 Aug28 SepWilcanniaGerrit Fokkema
198617 Oct27 NovOcclusionMarian Drew, Joanna Greenwood, David Grofton, Robyn Gray, Margaret Rol, Leanne Ramsay, Ivan Nunn, Anna Zsoldas, Jay Younger
198617 Oct27 NovThe Temptation to ExistJanet Burchill and Jenny McCamley
19865 Nov7 DecFiona HallFiona Hall
19865 Nov7 DecFamily 1972-

1974

Christine Godden
198610 Dec15 JanEtc.Third Year students
198721 Jan15 FebThe Glamour ShowCurator Helen Ennis.  An Australian National Gallery touring exhibition
198718 Feb15 MarReproductionJanina Green (VIC)
198718 Feb15 MarStories of RomanceAnn Wulff (TAS)
198718 Mar12 AprImage Perfect- Australian Fashion Photography in the EightiesGuest Curator: Sandy Edwards
198715 Apr10 MayPupil of the EyeChris Fortescue (NSW)
198715 Apr10 MaySeasons. Pseudo PanoramasIan North (SA)
198713 May7 JunEight Easy PiecesPat Brassington (TAS)
198710 Jun5 JulLight of Day-The photocopier and timeLindy Lee and Mike Parr
198710 Jun5 JulScenariosPeter Burgess (AUS/USA)
19878 Jul2 AugWorks from on consignmentVarious (replaced Resemblance which failed to arrive from Germany)
19878 Jul2 AugRed SquaresRose Farrell (VIC)
19875–30 AugRetrospectiveMax Dupain
19875–30 AugSalon ObscuraCurator: Sally Couacaud.  Part of the Australian Video Festival
198717–25 OctOriginsElizabeth Gertsakis (TAS)
198717–25 OctChristine Cornish (NSW)
198728 Oct22 NovA Marginal Body-The Photographic Image in Latin AmericaGuest Curator: Charles Merewether
198725 Nov20 DecResemblanceAnne Zahalka (NSW)
198725 Nov20 DecThe Blue KingdomJay Younger (QLD)
19873 Dec8 DecVideos by MIMAMIMA (VIC)
198814–15 JanWe Have Survived Art AuctionAuction of works by Tony Tuckson, David and Guy Boyd, Robert Klippel, John Olsen, Susan Norrie, Bruce Petty, Frank Hodgkinson and others with proceeds to National Aboriginal Coalition, The Long March for Justice, Peace and Freedom and the Bicentenary Protest Group[72]
1988? -28 FebBart Feldman, John Nixon[73] [74] [75]
1988to 27 Mar(Photography) / during PhilosophyBernard Sachs[76]
1988to 27 MarMother Weep While I ThinkHelen Kundicevic
198830 Mar24 AprMuseumMartyn Jolly[77] [78]
198830 Mar24 AprPhotographs by Mutlu HassanMutlu Hassan
19887 AprPresentationVictor Burgin[79]
198827 Apr2 MayTamworthJudith Ahern[80] [81]
1988to 15 JuneA Sixtieth of a Second-Portraits of Women 1961–1981Sue Ford[82]
19882 Jun – 17 JulBefore the Winter GardensChristopher Köller[83]
19882 Jun – 17 JulReal Space: False Time and Space in the ApartmentKathy Payne
198822 Jul14 AugHoni Soit Qui Mal y PenseFiona McDonald[84] [85]
198814 Sep – 9 OctMondi Diversi (Different Worlds)FILEF (Federation of Italian Migrant Workers and their Families) group show and complimentary radio program[86]
1988? Oct – 6 NovFrom the Body of an Archive/From the Archive of a BodyHistorical Arthur Foster photographs, printed by Steven Lojewski, curator Mark Jackson, Mitchell Library[87]
1988? Nov – 8 DecFaite UrbaineRozalind Drummond[88]
1988? Nov – 8 DecPhotographs Ruth Frost
1988DecUnion and EclipseWarren Breninger[89]
1988DecMemory or Au ReboursPat Brassington
198917–26 FebI Am the Rehearsal MasterAnne Ferran[90]
198917–26 MarRepentanceRose Farrell & George Parkin (VIC)[91]
198917–26 MarFigure WorksJanina Green
198929 Mar23 AprOrdinary PhotographyJohn Lethbridge & John Young[92]
198929 Mar23 AprArt Fades 1 2 3 4…Susan Fereday (VIC)
198926 Apr21 MayTransfigurationBashir Baraki & Vince Dzeikan[93] [94]
198926 Apr21 MayScenes From the Ivory TowerEx de Medici (ACT)
198924 May18 JunSelected WorksGeoff Kleem (NSW)[95]
198924 May18 JunThe Divine ComedyFiona Hall (SA)[96]
198921 Jun26 JulSalle de ReconnaissanceDiena Georgetti, Belinda Gunn, Redford/Webb, Luke Roberts, Hiram To. Curator: Michele Helmrich (QLD)
198921 Jun26 JulA Glamorous Private History or (Some People Like to eat alone)Elizabeth Gertsakis
198919 Jul8 AugRoman Portraits-ThresholdGeoff Weary (NSW)
198919 Jul8 AugThe Voice of No-One-Once AgainMark Jackson & John Conomos
198916 Aug10 SepSomething MoreTracey Moffatt (NSW)[97] [98]
198916 Aug10 SepWorld ViewMichael Hutak (NSW)
198913 Sep8 OctSons of EmpireJim Marwood (TAS)
198913 Sep8 OctThat OceanFergus Armstrong (VIC)
198915 SepProjected LightCorinne and Arthur Cantrill (VIC)
198911 Oct5 NovTransperiphery or travel & connection of peripheries

(Chile & Australia)

Eugenio Dittborn (CHILE)
198911 Oct5 NovAdam's Apple Chile-TranvestitesPaz Errazuriz (CHILE)[99] [100]
19898 Nov3 DecThe Faces of MenPeter Burgess (USA)[101]
19898 Nov3 DecFollyJennifer McCamley & Janet Burchill (NSW)
19896 Dec24 DecInhabitationChristl Berg (TAS)
19896 Dec24 DecTracesMatt Feeney (QLD)
19896 Dec24 DecCartes Postales (video works)Robert Cahen (FR)[102]
199031 Jan4 MarThe Oedipus VariationsCurator: Fiona MacDonald
19907 Mar8 AprPhotophobiaJohn Voss (TAS)
19907 Mar8 AprUnidentified HostessesJudith Ahern (NSW/VIC)
19906 Apr6 OctAdd MagicPat Brassington, Juan Davila, Jeff Gibson, Maria Kozic, Robyn Stacey, Peter Tyndall
199013 Apr3 JunLe Voyage de Brise-GlaceAlain Fleischer (FR)
199013 Apr3 JunSamuel Beckett TeleplaysCurator: Stan Douglas (Canada)
19906 Jun8 JulSeven Photo- MicrographsCurator: Stephen Bram (VIC)
19906 Jun8 JulThe Cabinet of PhotographyJohn Nixon (NSW)
199011 Jul19 AugEvolution After SavageryAra Koopelian (NSW)
199024 Aug29 SepLiving in the Seventies: Photographs by Carol JerremsCarol Jerrems. Curator: Helen Ennis. An Australian National Gallery Travelling Exhibition
1990Bill Viola-VideoBill Viola (USA)
1990David Stephenson-Recent WorksDavid Stephenson (TAS)
19903–11 NovVideo Visions-5th Australian International Video Festival
199014 Nov6 DecWordsFiona Hall (SA)
19909 -23 DecThe History of Photography-SCA student workCurator: Martyn Jolly
19909 -23 DecPhotogramsCurator: Bronwyn Clark-Coolee
19916 Feb10 MarArt is Not Enoughgroup show USA/Australia[103]
199113 Mar14 AprIn Dreams: Mervyn Bishop Thirty Years of Photography 1960–1990Mervyn Bishop, curated by Tracey Moffat[104] [105]
199117 Apr19 MayFlights HomeHewson/Walker (SA)
199117 Apr19 MayGeoff KleemGeoff Kleem[106]
199122 May23 JunThe Philosophers StoneHelen Kundicevic (NSW[107]
199122 May23 JunLayers of LightJohn Daly (NSW)
199126 Jun28 JulThe Slow War-Luxury and AmnesiaBronia Iwanczak (SA)[108]
199126 Jun28 JulFieldsAnna Zannella (WA)
1991Aug-1 SepFurniture FictionsLynn Silverman (UK)[109]
1991Aug-1 SepCombustJay Younger
199131 Jul17 SepMaureen BurnsMaureen Burns (NSW)
1991to 17 NovOne to OneHelen Amanatiadis, Sharon Baker, Maria Barbagallo, Louise Denoon, Gary Frew, Sonia Greig, Craig Hoy, Nicholas Jarman, Joseph Mallard, Kim McClintock, Bronwyn Rennex, Elvis Richardson, Steven Simmons, Frances Tatarovic, Giovanna Trenoweth, Lachlan Warner.[110]
1991to 22 DecBig shotsGary Heary[111] [112]
19926 Feb7 MarFuel10 artists on the theme of the millennium, curated by Jay Younger[113] [114]
19922 Apr2 MayPortrait of a new South AfricaPeter McKenzie[115] [116]
19927 May13 JunPatterns of ConnectionLeah King-Smith[117]
199218 Jun11 JulVast: Photographs from Europe and Antarctica 1990–91David Stephenson[118]
199222 Jul16 Aug Elvis Sightings6 artists[119]
1992to 12 SepPossession and MirthChristine Webster[120]
1992to 10 OctTlacolmmiquiztli-Ills caused by Love and DesireChristopher Köller[121]
1992to 25 OctHorizonJaap de Jong (Netherlands)[122]
199316–29 JanOriginal Stealworks by students of the ACP workshop[123]
1993to 27 FebA Place I've Never SeenMathew Jones[124]
1993to 27 FebS.T.U.D.S. Seductively Transmitted Utopian Dream StatesAndy Davey
1993to 27 MarSurrealism and the BrideBruce Searle[125]
1993to 27 MarUntitled SequenceCristel Berg[126]
19931–24 AprDangling VirginsEugenia Raskopoulos[127]
19931–24 Apr"Mavri XenitiaEffy Alexakis[128]
1993to 22 MayMangrove CreekAxel Poignant
1993to 22 MayCartographicsKevin Todd
1993to 26 JunMien: Chinese Scrolls, Singapore-Adelaide 1990–93Alan Cruikshank[129]
199317–24 JulThe Big Deal is BlackBrenda Croft[130]
199317–24 JulCast-OffsDestiny Deacon
199329 Jul21 AugPhantasmLynne Roberts-Goodwin
1994FebPierre MolinierPierre Molinier, auspiced by Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras[131]
Closed for renovations September 1993 - March 1996
199621 Mar4 MayInheritanceSandy Edwards, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Debra Phillips, Jon Rhodes, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, David Stephenson, Les Walking, Anne Zahalka, Dan Armstrong, Destiny Deacon, Walker Evens, Heather Fernon, Carol Jerrems, Anne McDonald, Stephen Marcus, Susan Nakamarra Boko, Sandy Nicholson, Lyndall Phelps, Paul Saint, Danielle Thompson
199610 May18 JunBad LightJane Burton, Jane Eisemann, Pat Brassington, David McDowell
199610 May17 JunSilent MeasureJudith Wright
199624 May17 JunWhiteFrancesca Da Rimini & Josephine Starrs
19967–29 JunWhere are you now?Anne Ferran
19967–29 JunLandmarks, WatermarksBette Mifsud
19965 Jul3 AugHorizontalGraeme Hare
19969–31 AugSky of the WorldYvonne Lee Schultz
19969–31 AugScreen OptionsMike Stevenson
19966 Sep5 OctBeyond the Sublime, Part 1Keith Arrant, Jem Southam, Marie Shannon
199611 Oct9 NovBeyond the Sublime, Part 2Chris Barry, Kurt Brereton, Pip Culbert, Paul Handley, Leah King-Smith, Rosemary Laing, Harry Nankin and Janina Green
199615 Nov14 DecLushusRobyn Stacey
1996/720 Dec25 JanHearsay; New Photo ArtistsGroup show
1996from March 22Inheritancewith Bill Henson, Fiona Hall, David Moore and Anne Zahalka

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018-06-19. Australian Centre for Photography . Saatchi Gallery.
  2. Linda Morris "Pathway to extinction", The Sydney Morning Herald, November 19, 2020
  3. News: Galvin . Nick . 25 October 2022 . Priceless photographic archive saved by Powerhouse . The Sydney Morning Herald . 1 April 2023.
  4. News: 2018-06-19. Australian Centre for Photography [closed at this location]]. Time Out Sydney.
  5. News: 2018-06-19. Australian Centre For Photography. SBS (Australian TV channel).
  6. Web site: 2018-06-19. Australian Centre for Photography-Create NSW. New South Wales government. 15 November 2010.
  7. Nick Waterlow, "Modern masters side by side in a unique show of art works", The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 17 May 1988, p.2
  8. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 27 May 1988, p. 61
  9. Carole Hampshire, "Billboard posers keep you posted", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 09 Jun 1988, p.12
  10. Web site: Photofile: Periodical 1983–2020 . 2021-01-19. National Library of Australia.
  11. Book: Photo files : an Australian photography reader. 1999. Power Publications and Australian Centre for Photography. French, Blair., Australian Centre for Photography.. 1-86487-053-2. Sydney. 222498963.
  12. Web site: Photofile Magazine Relaunch. 2018-06-19. National Gallery of Victoria.
  13. Web site: Meagher. Toby. June 2013. Developing Photography: A History of the Australian Centre for Photography 1973–2013. A paper was written for a Masters in Art Administration at COFA. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180910163743/http://www.photo-web.com.au/papers/meagher/default.html . 10 September 2018 . 2020-12-17. photo-web. Gael Newton.
  14. Web site: Australia. National Gallery of. The Spread of Time: The photography of David Moore. 2018-06-19. National Gallery of Australia. 11 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170311042758/http://nga.gov.au/moore/. dead.
  15. Web site: David Moore, National Portrait Gallery. 2018-06-19. National Portrait Gallery (Australia).
  16. Web site: Revealing the humanity within. 2018-06-19. The Sydney Morning Herald. February 2003 .
  17. "New body will promote photography as art form", The Sydney Morning Herald, Tue, Sep 25, 1973 p.12
  18. Book: Installation view : photography exhibitions in Australia (1848–2020) . 2021 . Daniel Palmer, Martyn Jolly, Printed by Wilco Art Books . 978-1-922545-00-8 . First edition of 1000 . Melbourne, Australia . 1262773212.
  19. Michael Visontay, "In a bind over new premises", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 14 Dec 1989, p.113
  20. Geraldine O'Brien, "Bustling pier to be loaded with more culture, The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 08 May 1991, p.3
  21. News: Cochrane . Peter . 21 March 1996 . Back in Focus . 19 . The Sydney Morning Herald.
  22. The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 22 May 1993, p.23
  23. The Sydney Morning Herald  Saturday, May 07, 1994 p.42
  24. The Sydney Morning Herald  Tuesday, May 24, 1994, p.28
  25. Michael Hutak, "No new cafe in focus", The Sydney Morning Herald  Tuesday, May 24, 1994, p.28
  26. Reflex exhibitors were Graeme Hare, Les Walkling, Susan Fereday, David Stephenson and Rozalind Drummond: Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 12 Aug 1994, p.63
  27. Michael Hutak, "Six of the best", The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 10 Aug 1994, p.28
  28. News: Johnson . Anna . 15 March 1996 . Art Beat . 12 . he Sydney Morning Herald.
  29. News: Cochrane . Peter . 18 March 1996 . Arts . 23 . The Sydney Morning Herald.
  30. News: 5 January 1996 . Cool Café . 27 . The Sydney Morning Herald.
  31. News: Greenwood . Helen . 9 January 1996 . Short Black: A Taste of Italy . 25 . The Sydney Morning Herald.
  32. "Australian Centre for Photography closes", ProPhoto, Vol. 77-1, Issue 230, January 2021, p.13
  33. News: 2018-06-19. Australian Centre for Photography to Leave Paddington. Concrete Playground. 3 September 2014.
  34. News: 2018-06-19. Australian Centre for Photography Project Space Gallery. Time Out Sydney.
  35. News: 2018-06-19. Australian Centre for Photography nets $5m at auction. The Australian Financial Review. 14 October 2014.
  36. Web site: Australian Centre for Photography ACP HIBERNATION . 2020-12-17.
  37. Web site: Powerhouse acquires Australian Centre for Photography - Australian Photography . 2023-03-31 . www.australianphotography.com . en.
  38. Web site: Powerhouse Photography . 2023-03-31 . Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences . en-US.
  39. Web site: Powerhouse Photography Announced . 2023-03-31 . Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences . en-US.
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  41. advertisement, The Sydney Morning Herald,  Saturday, December 07, 1974, p.35
  42. "The camera finds a home', The Sydney Morning Herald,  Saturday, November 23, 1974, p.12
  43. Daniel Thomas, "Deadpan pictures", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 30 Jan 1975, p.7
  44. Daniel Thomas, "Ocker and aesthete", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 06 Feb 1975, p.7
  45. shown in April 1975 at the new George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, see: Maureen Gilchrist, "Emphasis of splendours of the past", The Age, Friday 04 Apr 1975, p.2
  46. Daniel Thomas, "A contrast in photography," The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, 20 Feb 1975, p.7
  47. Daniel Thomas, "Refreshing Friend," The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, 27 Mar 1975, p.7
  48. Daniel Thomas, "A major talent emerges", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 24 Apr 1975, p.7
  49. Daniel Thomas, "Revelation of galleries' tastes", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, 03 Jul 1975, p.7
  50. Leslie Walford, "Camera art", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 03 Jul 1975, p.7
  51. Nancy Borlase, "High-pitched hedonism", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 26 Feb 1976, p.7
  52. Nancy Borlase, "It's everybody's year", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 08 Jan 1976, p.7
  53. Nancy Borlase, "Elevating, cultivated", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 10 Jun 1976, p.7
  54. Nancy Borlase, "Kennedy breaks new ground", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 09 Sep 1976, p.7
  55. Jill Sykes "The 'liberated' male", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 25 Nov 1976, p.7
  56. Jill Sykes, "The photograph as a work of art", The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, 26 Jan 1977, p.7
  57. Jill Sykes, "The overgenerous Jef Doring", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 03 Feb 1977, p.7
  58. Nancy Borlase, "Beautiful images", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 24 Mar 1977, p.7
  59. Marie Knuckey, "Changing of the garden", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday, 07 Apr 1977, p.14
  60. Leslie Walford, "Titled clicker", The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday 10 Apr 1977, p.101
  61. Nancy Borlase, "Bizen pottery free from artifice", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 14 Apr 1977, p.8
  62. "City's wild life", The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday 19 Jun 1977, p.138
  63. Jill Sykes, "Celebrity and cheese", The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 29 Oct 1977, p.16
  64. Mary Wilkinson and Megan Paris, "Look! How to find your way around the shops", The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 17 Jan 1978, p.12
  65. Nancy Borlase, "Photography's man for all seasons", The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 25 Mar 1978, p.16
  66. Jenny Tabakoff, "Exhibitions: Mystery", The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 19 Jun 1978, p.10
  67. Nancy Borlase, "Big X", The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 14 Oct 1978, p.16
  68. Nancy Borlase, "Romantic with a camera", The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 25 Nov 1978, p.16
  69. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Sundaym 13 Jul 1980, p.135
  70. [Max Dupain]
  71. Richard McKenzie, "One man's widow on the world", The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 10 Jan 1983, p.106
  72. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 15 Jan 1988, p.45
  73. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 19 Feb 1988, p.52
  74. The Age Friday 19 Feb 1988, p. 96
  75. John McDonald, "To please or chasten-it's a matter of belief", The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday, 20 Feb 1988, p.75
  76. [Monty Webber]
  77. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 30 Mar 1988, p.29
  78. Carole Hampshire, "Exhibition makes a display of display", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, 14 Apr 1988, p.11
  79. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 01 Apr 1988, p.42
  80. Martyn Jolly, "A personal visual record of those 'songs from the heart", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, 28 Apr 1988, p.11
  81. John McDonald, "Behind the folk tunes is a dark, melancholy place" The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday, 30 Apr 1988, p.73
  82. Carole Hampshire, "Women captured in a fraction of a second", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 09 Jun 1988, p.11
  83. Martyn Jolly, "Images of perpetual remembering", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 30 Jun 1988, p.9
  84. News: Jolly. Martyn. 4 August 1988. Photos expressed in commentary and text. 8. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  85. Bronwyn Watson, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 05 Aug 1988, p.48
  86. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday, 02 Sep 1988, p.53
  87. Carole Hampshire, "Sydney as she was way back", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 20 Oct 1988, p. 13
  88. Martyn Jolly, "Potent metaphors of human destiny", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 24 Nov 1988, p.10
  89. Martyn Jolly, "Breninger turns Blakean", The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 20 Dec 1988, p.9
  90. Martyn Jolly, "Hysteria still exercises its primordial force", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, 09 Feb 1989, p.107
  91. Anne Howell, "What's on in your suburb", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 02 Mar 1989, p.12
  92. Martyn Jolly, "Experimental return to artists' origins", The Sydney Morning Herald , Thursday 06 Apr 1989, p.118
  93. The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 27 Apr 1989, p.11
  94. Anne Howell, "Images of death transfigured", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 04 May 1989, p.107
  95. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 25 May 1989, p.13
  96. Christopher Allen, "Barbed-wire Dante no joke", The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 09 Jun 1989, p.16
  97. Carole Hampshire, "Documentary drama without dialogue", The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 24 Aug 1989, p.13
  98. John McDonald, "Challenging dislocations", The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 02 Sep 1989, p.80
  99. "Exotic Chilean packages", The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 07 Oct 1989, p.32
  100. Christopher Allen, "Form looking for content", The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 03 Nov 1989, p.14
  101. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 09 Nov 1989, p.123
  102. Christopher Allen, "Humour at the ACP-how ironic", The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 15 Dec 1989, p.14
  103. Michael Visontay, "Activisim in the arts", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 14 Feb 1991, p.13
  104. Michael Visontay, "Chronicles of a career in blacks and whites", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday, 14 Mar 1991, p.96
  105. Peter Cochrane, "Dollar's tight but the spirit's right", The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 01 Jan 1991, p.13
  106. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 03 May 1991, p.44
  107. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday, 07 Jun 1991, p.49
  108. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, July 12, 1991, p.50
  109. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, August 09, 1991, p.49
  110. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, 01 Nov 1991, p.44
  111. Elizabieth Jerman, "Big shots", The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 29 Nov 1991, p.29
  112. listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday, 20 Dec 1991, p.42
  113. Michael Visontay, "Fuel for photography", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 06 Feb 1992, p.12
  114. "Short takes", The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 14 Feb 1992, p.48
  115. The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday, 01 Apr 1992, p.24
  116. Michael Visontay, "S African pix", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 09 Apr 1992, p.16
  117. Emily Gibson, "Frames of reference", The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 01 May 1992, p.46
  118. Pamela Payne, "Vast photos", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 18 Jun 1992, p.15
  119. Michael Visontay, "Oh no! Bazza comes back, with Spike, after 20 years", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 23 Jul 1992, p.20
  120. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 21 Aug 1992, p.49
  121. Michael Visontay, "Mexican killers and wrestlers", The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 24 Sep 1992, p.21
  122. Monque Famrer, "A work that speaks for itself", The Sydney Morning Herald Monday 19 Oct 1992, p.19
  123. Listing The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 1 Jan 1993, p.27
  124. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 19 Feb 1993, p.53
  125. Robert McFarlane, "Another side of Dupain", The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 6 Mar 1993, p.46
  126. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 12 Mar 1993, p.58
  127. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 2 Apr 1993, p.52
  128. Robert McFarlane, "A state of rich diversity", The Sydney Morning Herald Sarturday 3 Apr 1993, p.51
  129. Robert McFarlane, "Apocalyptic enigmas", The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 12 Jun 1993, p.47
  130. Listing, The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 3 Jul 1993, p.169
  131. Daniel Lewis "The artist alone in his heels", The Sydney Morning Herald Monday 21 Feb 1994, p.19