Roger Scott (born 1944) is an Australian social documentary photographer and photographic printer.
In December 2001 Scott published a retrospective of his work, ''Roger Scott: From the Street,'' with a foreword by
Gael Newton, senior curator of photography at the
Australian National Gallery. In addition to 139 of Scott's photos, the book included an essay by
Robert McFarlane
Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (July 12, 1937 – May 12, 2022) was an American Marine Corps officer who served as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1985. Within the Reagan administration, McFarlane was a leading ar ...
, a fellow Australian photographer and photographic critic. In his essay, McFarlane suggested that Scott's photographs "are unique within Australian photography. The intimacies he records in the lives of his subjects show that, far from being another purist disciple of Cartier-Bresson's worthy maxim of the decisive moment, Roger Scott introduces a new kind of instant in Australian documentary photography - the irrevocable moment."
Scott's work was included in
Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s at the
Art Gallery of South Australia (2010).
Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s
, Art Gallery of South Australia. Accessed 30 May 2011.
Book
* Scott, Roger. ''Roger Scott: From the Street.'' Neutral Bay, NSW: Chapter and Verse, 2001. .
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Living people
Australian photographers
Social documentary photographers
1944 births