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NATURALISM and the establishment of photography as an artform in mid-centuryAustralia

Danielle Rossi 1996

This 2017 online version of Danielle Rossi's thesis has been adapted from a copy of Danielle's 1996 thesis as submitted for Fine Arts IV Thesis University of Sydney. This is not the thesis as submitted and includes amendments, reformatting and updated information.
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CONCLUSION

 

A different concept of the artist and what constitutes creativity and artistry needed to be developed before an unmanipulated form of photography (like Naturalism) could be viewed as art.

By demonstrating and promoting the virtues of "seeing photographically" at the moment of exposure, Laurence Le Guay removed the emphasis of the photographic image's claim to creativity from its originality as a hand-crafted print.

The reproducibility of a photograph is not a hindrance to its consideration as art—the artistry is in the "capturing" of the image.

 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Geoffrey Powell – Family Group
2. Geoffrey Powell – Truants
3. Geoffrey Powell – Delegates at a Political Conference
4. Geoffrey Powell – Bailing for Water
5. Edward Cranstone – Civil Construction Corps Worker
6. Edward Cranstone –  Street Scene, Dead-Beat, Recreation, Timidity
7. Edward Cranstone – What of the Future?
8. Dr Julian Smith – "Is Not The Truth The Truth"
9. Laurence Le Guay – Chips Rafferty
10. Laurence Le Guay – Ann Price-Jones
11. Laurence Le Guay –  Untitled (Wyatt Earp)
12. Laurence Le Guay – European Mother and Child
13. David Moore – Composition in Curves
14. David Moore – Sydney Harbour Bridge 2
15. David Moore – Little Charlie
16. David Moore – Emulation
17. David Potts – Untitled (alley boy)
18. David Moore – Redfern Interior;    18a.  David Moore –  'Mother and Child'
19. Laurence Le Guay – Bull Ring Impression
20. David Potts – Henley Regatta
21. David Potts – Buckingham Palace
22. Laurence Le Guay – Native Love Ritual

 

 

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