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December 27, 2009
The altfotonet blog has a post on Gordon Undy, the Australian analogue photographer. There is little about Undy on the internet apart from the historical images of regional Queensland held by the National Library of Australia:
Gordon Undy, Bulk Sugar Terminal, Mackay, 1995
The images in the collection of the National Library of Australia are mostly architectural, street scenes of McKay, Townsville and Rockhampton and mining taken with a large format camera. There are very few landscapes in this series, but I found one:
Gordon Undy, West from Chillagoe, 1994-96, silver gelatin
Undy says that his landscape images are within the tradition of fine black and white photography with a lineage of connection through Paul Caponigro Minor White to Edward Weston, Edward Steichen, Harry Callahan. Though he is the author of three books of photographs of the Australian landscape Yet there seems to be very critical commentary about Undy's body of work in Australia. The art institution ignores photographic landscapes?
I am assuming that there is an Australian tradition of this kind of fine art black and white large format photography. But where to look to uncover it?
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one place to start uncovering fine art black and white large format photography in Australia is Silvershot --a photography magazine featuring fine art images captured with film or digital.
Prints created in the darkroom with silver gelatin or alternative printing processes, mixed media or in the lightroom via inkjet.
Silvershotz is a collector’s magazine for those passionate about the art and craft of photography..