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November 1, 2011
One of the galleries that I wanted to see when I was in Melbourne was the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) at Wheelers Hill --but I ran out of time. I was interested because I understood that they had been excavating the history of 1970s’ photography in Australia throughout 2011.
There had been exhibitions on Paul Cox, on Sue Ford, the different ways that performance artists have used photography to document their temporal activities, and Brummels in South Yarra which was the first Australian art gallery dedicated to exhibiting the work of art photographers.
The current exhibition at the MGA is Tim Handfield's: deep skin, which tracks Handfield’s photography alongside the significant changes in colour photography over the past three decades:
Tim Handfield, wall and wire, Fitzroy , Colour Photographs, 1977-78
Handfield is known for engaging in cutting-edge technological innovation, for his photographs from the 1970s & 80s revealing a poetic beauty in the urban setting, and for making some of the most beautiful, colour prints produced by an Australian photographer.
Handfield is an acknowledged master printer (analogue and digital)--he has printed for many of Australia’s leading fine art and commercial photographers--and has a book published entitled In Camera
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