David Moore (6 April 1927 – 23 January 2003)
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'' (25 January 2003) was an Australian

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, historian of Australian photography, and initiator of the

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Early life and education

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Moore was born in

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. With it he photographed a fellow student and future Prime Minister,

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, sailing a toy yacht and as an illustration in the school's ''The Tudorian'' it was his first published work. He also used it to make a self-portrait aged 15, while undertaking his secondary studies at

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1939-1945. During

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Moore served in the

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Career

In 1947, having begun studies in architecture, Moore decided on a photography career, which he began in the advertising and illustration studio of Russell Roberts in Sydney. He joined the Institute of Photographic Illustrators formed in Sydney in 1947 as 'the first group of specialised cameramen ic: Margaret Michaelis was the only woman memberto be organised as a society in this country'. Moore was amongst fifteen exhibitors, mostly Sydney professionals, in the first exhibition in 1949. He moved on to work with

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, whose work he respected as "clean...very informative, very strong, very emotional – a world away from the soggy pictorial stuff." Working in Dupain's studio from 1948 until 1951 on architectural, commercial and industrial assignments, in his own time Moore made excursions to photograph the foreshores, harbour and city of Sydney, as well as making pictures its slums, on which

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commented in ''Contemporary Photography'', in the course of which he made the much-reproduced ''Redfern interior'', of a family facing eviction. Moore's work started being exhibited and published, in 1948 when he was 21, with a double page spread in a 1950 Sunday supplement of ''

'' being devoted to his series on the preparation of an ocean liner for its return journey to the UK, and inclusion in a book ''Australian Photography''. Despite being offered a junior partnership with Dupain, Moore moved to London in 1951, where commissioned work appeared in ''

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'', Look and other publications and undertook commissions in the USA, Europe and in Africa, including accompanying the Royal Tour in Nigeria in 1956. Moore married Jennifer Flintoff in 1955. The couple returned to Australia on

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, 2 August 1958, the year of his father's death in December, in time for the opening of a solo exhibition of Moore's work at

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,''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Sunday 20 Jul 1958, p.99 He contributed picture stories to local publications including ''

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'', but continued to be commissioned by,including National Geographic, as reported by

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in "Shhh! Somebody's watching", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Tuesday, 01 Feb 1966, p.6 and sell existing work to, American and British magazines, represented by the New York-based Black Star photo agency from 1958. After the birth of twins in August 1960, Moore diversified the commercial applications of his photography; his semi-abstract murals depicting the four elements fire, earth, air and water decorated the dining room in the refurbishment of the Carlton-Rex Hotel in Sydney; and large panels of Moore images were exhibited at the Australian stand at the Comptoir Suisse at the

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, in Lausanne, which was attended by an audience of over a million. He joined forces in establishing a studio in a North Shore terrace house at 100 Walker Street with designers Gordon Andrews and Harry Williamson, then at 7 Ridge Street North Sydney in a building designed and then also occupied by architect Ian McKay. Thus they gained more exposure, sometimes working together on commissions such as the Tokyo Trade Fair, and the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia. in the estimation of historian

the group "helped change the creative climate in Australia."

Recognition

Moore was early recognised as a significant practitioner. In a 1959 review his ''Slum Kids'' is favourably compared with his employer Dupain's ''Meat Queue'' in a review of a group show alongside

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at David Jones Gallery."Laurence Le Guay, among others, represent the usual kind of "unusual angle". The approach of David Moore in 'Slum Kids', with its greater range of greys, is much more sympathetic, even if it does not convey spontaneity and therefore veracity. 'The Human Document' loses its quality when it becomes posed as Max Dupain knew well when he photographed "The Meat Queue". ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' Mon, Mar 28, 1949, p.27 Another early image, also made while apprenticed to Dupain, of a struggling family in working class Redfern was included in

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's major 1955 exhibition "

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", which originated at the

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and toured the world. In a newspaper article Moore corrected the misinformation that he was the only Australian with work in the show–Laurence Le Guay had been miscredited by MoMA as being a New Guinea photographer. Commentator

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regarded Moore as amongst a few who had "made the crucial breakthrough in Australian photography". Photographs by him were purchased, with those of David Beal, Helmut Gritscher, Lance Nelson and

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in 1969 for the

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, Melbourne through the KODAK (Australasia) Pty Ltd Fund. In December a group show of these works was held, the first representation of photography at the new National Gallery of Victoria quarters in St Kilda Road. Moore's 1966 photograph ''Migrants Arriving in Sydney'', originating from a commission by ''

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'', is regarded as an iconic work of modern Australian photography.

Fine art photography

Moore participated in, and judged, photographic exhibitions throughout his career. In the 1970s Moore developed non-commissioned works aimed at capturing what he called "the soft flow of time", as opposed to the "decisive moment" favoured by magazine editors. Much of such work by him was exhibited in commercial galleries.

Portraiture

Throughout his career, Moore made portraits of significant Australians and international personalities, either in formal sittings or more often as part of his reportage, and many as part of his contribution to journalist and provocateur Craig McGregor's 1969 cultural survey ''In The Making''. In August 2001, Timothy Fairfax and Gordon Darling gave $44,000 to the National Portrait Gallery to purchase works for a substantial holding of Moore portraits, with the remainder donated by the artist himself. Darling said, ‘I have always admired David Moore's work and his ability to capture the moment with his photographs," while Simon Elliot elaborates on "Moore's skill as a portrait photographer and his love of the captured moment, accident and chance, combined with strong formal compositional devices." Those of subjects held in the Australian National Portrait Gallery include; Peter Nicholson,

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, Henry Figueira, Ivan Carapina,

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, Les Blakebrough,

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, Robert Hughes, A D Hope, Wes Stacey, President Johnson and Prime Minister

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, Kate Gollings,

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Contributions to the profession

Moore promoted his profession and encouraged others, workers and amateurs, through his lectures, including at the

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Camera Circle, and his judging of competitions in Australia. He contributed energetically to research into historical Australian photography, making in 1976 an archive of gelatin silver prints from the collection of Henri Mallard's glass negatives that were published in association with Sun Books in 1978, and from 1979, researching Australian photography for a book ''Australia, Image of a Nation 1850-1950'', that was published in October 1983. During the 1970s he was an influential figure in the development of art photography, and as a dedicated advocate for the acceptance of photography as a legitimate art form was a driving force, with Wesley Stacey, behind the establishment the

in Sydney.'''' Moore's works have been acquired for collections of the major public galleries and libraries across Australia, and are in institutions in France, the USA and China.

Personal life and legacy

Moore married West Australian Jennifer Flintoff in 1955 while they were both in London, he freelancing and she teaching in the

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, and they had four children, Karen, twins Lisa and Matthew, and Michael. They divorced in 1968. Moore died on 23 January 2003 of

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at a private hospital in

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, aged 75. A major retrospective of his life and work opened at the

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two days later, assembled from prints from ''Seven Years a Stranger'' donated by Moore in 1983, augmented by a complete set of later prints acquired by the Gallery from Moore's retrospective at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney in 1976, and later purchases and gifts from the photographer, and his gift of all the 35mm colour transparencies and monochrome prints for ''In the Making''. His children donated a generous portion of Moore's imagery to the

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, and daughter Lisa manages his archive and maintains hi
website

Awards

* 1965; Special Award at the exhibition The World and its People at the New York World Fair * 1967; five First Prizes at the Pacific Fair, Melbourne * 1971; First Prize Nikon colour section at the International Photographic Competition (first Australian winner) * 1979; Commonwealth Prize for services rendered as a professional photographer in Australia * 1985 First Prize, the Denison Award for Architectural Photography * 1989 Honorary Fellowship, Australian Institute of Professional Photography * 1994 Awarded Australian Artists Creative Fellowship (two years) * 2017 Posthumously inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Australian Journalism

Exhibitions

The first retrospective of Moore's work, held in 1977 at the

, Sydney, was acquired by the Australian National Gallery (now renamed the

Solo

* 1953; ''People in Photographs'' The Architectural Association, London * 1955, from 24 August, solo show,

* 1958 ''Seven Years a Stranger'', Macquarie Galleries, Sydney * 1959 ''Seven Years a Stranger'', The

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, Melbourne * 1960, from 15 January; David Moore, 80 photographs, Paxton's Gallery, 308 George St., Sydney * 1960, from 11 Feb; David Moore photographs, Y.M.C.A. Camera Circle, 325 Pitt St., Sydney * 1976 ''David Moore Photographs'', The Photographers’ Gallery, London * 1976 ''David Moore Retrospective 1940-76'', Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney * 1976 ''David Moore Retrospective 1940-76'', Brummels Gallery, Melbourne * 1976 ''David Moore Retrospective 1940-76'', Orange, NSW Festival of Arts * 1978 ''David Moore Retrospective 1940-1976'', touring New Zealand * 1977 ''Australia'', Australian Embassy, Paris * 1980 ''Photographs by Design'', Axiom Gallery, Melbourne * 1980 Exhibition, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney * 1983 ''The Landscape of NSW'', New South Wales Parliament House, Sydney * 1985 ''Sydney at Mid-Century'', AGNSW, Sydney * 1985 ''Sydney at Mid-Century'',

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, Melbourne * 1985 ''Sydney at Mid-Century'', Developed Image, SA * 1985 ''The CRA Pilbara Project'', touring Asia & Japan * 1986 ''Australian Artists 1960-85'', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne * 1986 ''Australian Artists 1960-85'', The Print Room, Sydney * 1988 ''Sydney at Mid-Century'', New South Wales House, London * 1988 ''The Australian Functional Tradition'', Christine Abrahams Gallery * 1988 ''David Moore: Fifty Years of Photographs'', Retrospective, AGNSW * 1989 ''David Moore: Fifty Years of Photographs'', regional galleries tour * 1989 ''David Moore: Australian Photographer'', Australian Embassy, Paris, France * 1990 ''David Moore: A Survey 1947-89'', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne * 1991 ''David Moore'' (The Kodak Collection) Puerto Rico; Shenyang, China * 1993 ''Queenstown Landscapes'', Tasmania, Image Hong Kong 93, Hong Kong * 1993 ''Sydney Harbour'', State Library of New South Wales * 1993 ''Railways, Relics and Romance'',

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, Sydney * 1995 ''Concert Works'', The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Opera House * 1997 ''The Unseen Images'', AGNSW, Sydney * 1998 ''The Unseen Images'', Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne *1999 State Library of Honolulu *1999 Australian Embassy, Washington * 2001 ''The Unseen Images'', Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne * 2003, 25 January - 21 April; ''The spread of time: the photography of David Moore'', National Gallery of Australia. * 2005 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne * 2005, June; ''David Moore: 100 Photographs'',

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, Sydney * 2006, August; ''David Moore: A Vision, 1927 – 2003'',

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, Melbourne;

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; Shepparton Art Gallery; Albury Regional Art Gallery;

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; Wollongong City Gallery; Mildura Arts Centre; Port Pirie Regional Gallery; La Trobe Regional Gallery * 2013-14 ''David Moore: Capturing the creation of the Sydney Opera House'';

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, Sydney * 2014-15 ''A Feat of Daring – David Moore's tribute to the ANZAC Bridge''; Customs House, Sydney

Group

* 1949, from 28 March; David Jones Gallery, Sydney * 1952; ''World Exhibition of Photography'' Lucerne, Switzerland * 1955; ''

,'' MoMA, New York, and world tour * 1960, 18–30 March; David Moore with

, John Nisbett, Ray Leighton,

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, David Potts, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney * 1961, from 23 August; with Max Dupain, Architecture exhibition, opened by Hal Missingham, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney * 1962, from 13 June; Moore with John Hearder, Clive Kane, Eric Bierre, Bruce Minnett, John Nisbett, Max Dupain, John Leighton, Laurie Le Guay, Rob Hillier, Wendy Clayton. Brian Hart, Geoffrey Lee, Paul Trenoweth, David Mist,

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* 1963, November; Moore's photographs of her works accompany Maria Gazzard's exhibition of ceramics at Hungry Horse Gallery * 1969, December; ''The Perceptive Eye'', David Moore, David Beal, Helmut Gritscher, Lance Nelson and Richard Woldendorp, National Gallery of Victoria, MelbourneMoore, David; Thomas, Daniel, 1931-; Dupain, Max, 1911-1992 (1980), David Moore, Richmond Hill Press, * 1967 ''Photography in the Fine Arts'', The Metropolitan Museum, New York. * 1967 ''Pacific Photographic Fair'', Melbourne. * 1973 ''Work in Progress'', Brummels Gallery, Melbourne. * 1975 ''Recent Australian Photography'' The Department of Foreign Affairs, Touring Exhibition, South East Asia. * 1979 ''The Philip Morris Collection'', Hyde Park, Sydney. * 1980 ''APIA Photography in the Park'', Sydney.

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* Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney * Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide * Australian Embassy, Beijing, China * Australian Embassy, Paris * Banyule Art Collection, Victoria * City of Waverley Collection, Victoria * CRA Limited, Melbourne * CSR Photography Project Collection, Sydney * Hamersley Iron Pty Limited, Perth * Health Insurance Commission, Canberra * Le Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris * Museum of Sydney * National Gallery of Australia, Canberra * National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne * National Library of Australia, Canberra * New South Wales Parliament House, Sydney * Novotel Hotel, Darling Harbour, Sydney * Parliament House, Canberra * State Library of New South Wales, Sydney * The Museum of Modern Art, New York * The National Maritime Museum, Sydney * The Perron Group, Sydney * The Philip Morris Collection * The Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, USA * The Polaroid Collection, Sydney * The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

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* * * * * * * *John Douglas Pringle, "Not a book but a happening", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Saturday 29 Nov 1969, p.18 *1969 «The US Overseas» c/o Time-Life Books. * * * * * *

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