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David Moore (Australian Photographer)
David Moore (6 April 1927 – 23 January 2003) by Sharon Verghis, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (25 January 2003) was an Australian Photojournalism, photojournalist, historian of Australian photography, and initiator of the Australian Centre for Photography. Early life and education 
Moore was born in Vaucluse, New South Wales, Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia, the younger brother of Tony, the two children of Casiphia Dorothy (née Morton) who died in 1931, and architect and artist John D. Moore who on 23 June 1932 married t ...
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David Moore (British Photographer)
David Moore (born 1961) is a British photographer, artist and educator working in and around documentary photography. He has had solo exhibitions of his work at The Photographers' Gallery, London, Impressions Gallery, Bradford and at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.https://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/whats-on/the-last-things-by-david-moore/ His work is held in the collection of the University of Warwick. He is Principal Lecturer for Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the University of Westminster, London. Early life and education Moore was born in Blackburn and within six weeks moved with his family to Derby, where he grew up. He studied photography at Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, graduating in 1988. Photography and theatre David Chandler has pointed out that "Moore belonged to "the second wave of new colour documentary in Britain", having attended Farnham College of Art and Design, where he was taug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time (magazine)
''Time'' (stylized in all caps) is an American news magazine based in New York City. For nearly a century, it was published weekly, but starting in March 2020 it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been published by Time USA, LLC, owned by Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. History ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923, by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. It was the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The two had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redfern, New South Wales
Redfern is an inner-city suburb of Sydney located 3 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. Strawberry Hills is a locality on the border with Surry Hills. The area experienced the process of gentrification and is subject to extensive redevelopment plans by the state government, to increase the population and reduce the concentration of poverty in the suburb and neighbouring Waterloo (see Redfern-Eveleigh-Darlington). History The suburb is named after surgeon William Redfern, who was granted of land in this area in 1817 by Lachlan Macquarie. He built a country house on his property surrounded by flower and kitchen gardens. His neighbours were Captain Cleveland, an officer of the 73rd regiment, who built Cleveland House and John Baptist, who ran a nursery and seed business. Sydney's original railway terminus was built in Cleveland Paddocks and extended from Cleveland Street to Devonshire Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jones Limited
David Jones Pty Limited, trading as David Jones (colloquially DJs), is an Australian High-End department store, owned since 2014 by South African retail group Woolworths Holdings Limited. David Jones was founded in 1838 by David Jones, a Welsh merchant and future politician, after he emigrated to Australia, and is the oldest continuously-operating department store in the world still trading under its original name. In 1980, the Adelaide Steamship Company acquired a substantial interest in David Jones, culminating in a complete takeover. The recession of the early 1990s caused the department store assets to be floated as "David Jones Limited". For the next two decades, the company went through turbulent times, eventually leading to discussions of a merger with Myer, and then, in 2014, a takeover by South African retail group Woolworths Holdings Limited. In 2016, Woolworths sold the iconic 1938 Market Street store and announced the relocation of DJ's head office to Richmond, Vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Le Guay
Laurence Craddock Le Guay (25 December 1916 – 2 February 1990), was an Australian fashion photographer. Biography Laurence Craddock Le Guay was born on 25 December 1916 at Chatswood, New South Wales, Chatswood Sydney, of locally born parents Charles Sidney Le Guay, company secretary, and Doris Alma Le Guay, née Usher. Photography Le Guay's schoolboy hobby of photography was encouraged by Harold Cazneaux and from 1935, at age eighteen, he worked as an assistant at Dayne portrait studio, before opening his own studio in Martin Place in 1937, to concentrate on illustrative and fashion photography. He joined the Pictorialism, Pictorialist The Sydney Camera Circle, Sydney Camera Circle in 1940 and exhibited with them at various national and international photographic salons. He began producing photomontage work of a more Surrealist style around the contemporary theme of the Machine Age and incorporating the heroic nude, most significant being ''The Progenitors'' (1938). Many o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palais De Beaulieu
Palais de Beaulieu is the historical and emblematic building of the Lausanne convention and exhibition center, located in Lausanne, in the Vaud Canton, Switzerland. The Palais is a convention centre that welcomes mainly conventions and events. The center includes thThéâtre de Beaulieuconcert, dance and theatre hall. With 1,844 seats, the Théâtre de Beaulieu is the biggest theatre in Switzerland. The Prix de Lausanne, an international ballet competition, is also hosted at the Palais de Beaulieu. La Télé, a regional TV-channel, has its studio and its offices at Beaulieu, as well as the Béjart Ballet Lausanne company. Conference Halls 6 + 7 of the Palais hosted the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest Located in the Beaulieu area in Lausanne, the Convention and Exhibition Center lies in more than 6 hectares of ground. It boasts of 11,000 sq.m. of floor and 12,000 sq.m. of public gardens. The Convention Center uses around 20 modular rooms and hallsBeaulieu Lausanne part of MCH G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Star (photo Agency)
Black Star, also known as Black Star Publishing Company, was started by refugees from Germany who had established photographic agencies there in the 1930s. Today it is a New York City-based photographic agency with offices in London and in White Plains, New York. It is known for photojournalism, corporate assignment photography and stock photography services worldwide. It is noted for its contribution to the history of photojournalism in the United States. It was the first privately owned picture agency in the United States, and introduced numerous new techniques in photography and illustrated journalism. The agency was closely identified with Henry Luce's magazines ''Life'' and ''Time''. History Black Star was formed in December 1935. The three founders were Kurt Safranski, Ernest Mayer and Kurt Kornfeld. In 1964, the company was sold to Howard Chapnick. The three founders; Safranski, Mayer and Kornfeld were German Jews who fled Berlin during the Nazi regime. They brought wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Souter
Gavin Geoffrey Souter AO (born 2 May 1929) is an Australian journalist and historian. He was born in Sydney, the son of a bank manager, Archibald Souter and Roma Souter, wasPhilip O'Brien, "Spinning words of gold", ''The Canberra Times'', 26 February 2000, Panorama, p. 12 educated at Kempsey High School, and Scots College in Warwick, Queensland and graduated BA from the University of Sydney. He joined ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' as a cadet journalist in 1947 and worked there for the next 40 years, serving as a correspondent in New York City and London and eventually as Assistant Editor of ''The Herald''. In 1960 Souter received the Walkley National Award for Australian Journalism. His books have included ''New Guinea: The Last Unknown'' (1963), a history of the exploration of all the territories of New Guinea, written after he had accompanied an initial penetration patrol making first contact with the Gants people of the Jimi Valley; ''A Peculiar People'' (1968), an acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkabout (magazine)
''Walkabout'' was an Australian illustrated magazine published from 1934 to 1974 (and again in 1978) combining cultural, geographic, and scientific content with travel literature. Initially a travel magazine, in its forty-year run it featured a popular mix of articles by travellers, officials, residents, journalists, naturalists, anthropologists and novelists, illustrated by Australian photojournalists. Its title derived "from the supposed 'racial characteristic of the Australian Aboriginal who is always on the move." History Ostensibly and initially a travel and geographic magazine published by the Australian National Travel Association (ANTA), ''Walkabout : Australia and the South Seas'' was named by ANTA director Charles Holmes. In its first issue of 1 Nov 1934, the editorial, signed by Charles (Chas) Lloyd Jones, chair of the board of David Jones and acting chairman of ANTA, proclaimed its aim to educate its readers thus: This first issue with its cover by internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macquarie Galleries
Macquarie Galleries was a Sydney private art gallery established in 1925 by John Henry Young and Basil Burdett. It was located at "Strathkyle", 19 Bligh Street Sydney then moved to 40 King Street in 1945. From 1991 to 1993 it was located at 83–85 McLachlan Avenue, Rushcutters Bay. It is currently located at 585 Grosvenor Place, Sydney. There are also associated Macquarie Galleries in Canberra and Perth. Basil Burdett left in 1935 or 1936 to become art critic for the Melbourne Herald. A E J L McDonnell became a partner around 1928. From 1939 to 1956 (59?) Lucy Swanton and Treania Smith 'The bitches of Bligh St' ran the gallery then Treania Smith and Mary Killen. Artists who have had major exhibitions include: : John Beard (various dates 1985–91) : Les Blakebrough (1964–88) : Robert Boynes (1985–93) : Rupert Bunny (1940–62) : John Coburn (1958–70) : Ray Crooke (1962–70) : Russell Drysdale (1942–61) : Ian Fairweather (1948–70 and posthumous exhibition 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Orion
RMS ''Orion'' was an ocean liner launched by the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1934 and retired from the water in 1963 after carrying about 500,000 passengers. A 23,371 ton passenger ship, the Orion was built to carry 486 first class, 653 tourist class and 466 crew passengers from Europe through the Pacific to Australia. The construction of the ship was documented in Paul Rotha's 1935 film ''Shipyard''. The vessel's sister ship was ''Orcades'', launched in 1936. Design and construction ''Orion'' was an enlarged version of SS ''Orontes'', and the first single funnel ship to be built for the Orient Line since 1902. She also had a single mast, giving her a very different appearance to her predecessors. She was the first ship to be painted in the Orient Line's livery with a corn coloured hull. Her accommodation was originally designed for 486 First Class and 653 Tourist Class passengers, with a crew of 466. When sailing on cruise voyages she accommodated 600 passengers in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look (American Magazine)
''Look'' was a biweekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with editorial offices in New York City. It had an emphasis on photographs and photojournalism in addition to human interest and lifestyle articles. A large-sized magazine of , it was a direct competitor to market leader ''Life'', which began publication months earlier and ended in 1972, a few months after ''Look'' shut down. Origin Gardner "Mike" Cowles Jr. (1903–1985), the magazine's co-founder (with his brother John) and first editor, was executive editor of ''The Des Moines Register'' and '' The Des Moines Tribune''. When the first issue went on sale in early 1937, it sold 705,000 copies. Although planned to begin with the January 1937 issue, the actual first issue of ''Look'' to be distributed was the February 1937 issue, numbered as Volume 1, Number 2. It was published monthly for five issues (February–May 1937), then switched to biweekly starting with the May 11, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
