MERVYN BISHOP | Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil Into Hand Of Traditional Land Owner (Gurindji) Vincent Lingiari (Wattie Creek), Northern Territory 1975/2021
30.3 x 30.5 cm
Digital photograph
Signed lower right in ink, and titled, dated and signed in ink verso One of Australia's icon images.
Illustrated on page 81, In Dreams. Mervyn Bishop: Thirty Years of Photography, 1960-1990. Held in AGNSW, NGA, NTL, ANG.
Bishop commenced a four-year photography cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963 (where he worked for seventeen years), becoming Australia's first Aboriginal press photographer. He was commissioned by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to document this historic event of handing back the land to the Indigenous people.
This picture was first shot in colour and then converted to black-and-white for publishing purposes at the time, and was first released for sale in black and white, not available in colour until recent times.
Courtesy of Josef Lebovic Gallery agent for Merv Bishop.
30.3 x 30.5 cm
Digital photograph
Signed lower right in ink, and titled, dated and signed in ink verso One of Australia's icon images.
Illustrated on page 81, In Dreams. Mervyn Bishop: Thirty Years of Photography, 1960-1990. Held in AGNSW, NGA, NTL, ANG.
Bishop commenced a four-year photography cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963 (where he worked for seventeen years), becoming Australia's first Aboriginal press photographer. He was commissioned by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to document this historic event of handing back the land to the Indigenous people.
This picture was first shot in colour and then converted to black-and-white for publishing purposes at the time, and was first released for sale in black and white, not available in colour until recent times.
Courtesy of Josef Lebovic Gallery agent for Merv Bishop.
30.3 x 30.5 cm
Digital photograph
Signed lower right in ink, and titled, dated and signed in ink verso One of Australia's icon images.
Illustrated on page 81, In Dreams. Mervyn Bishop: Thirty Years of Photography, 1960-1990. Held in AGNSW, NGA, NTL, ANG.
Bishop commenced a four-year photography cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963 (where he worked for seventeen years), becoming Australia's first Aboriginal press photographer. He was commissioned by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to document this historic event of handing back the land to the Indigenous people.
This picture was first shot in colour and then converted to black-and-white for publishing purposes at the time, and was first released for sale in black and white, not available in colour until recent times.
Courtesy of Josef Lebovic Gallery agent for Merv Bishop.
