Moving Pictures 1986-1987
Selected images
The photographs were first published in White Horse Black Dog - Sport 15 (pub Fergus Barrowman)
" Nearly ten years on from their taking, Moving Pictures seem like fleeting, unmediated truths; their grainy, uncomposed, sombre mood seems less to describe how the country looked than how it felt. In 1986 and 1987, for many the country felt bad. It seemed like the social fabric was becoming unglued. The economy was being restructured, unemployment was high, rising interest rates were forcing farmers off the land, and then the sharemarket crashed.
However, as Robert Frank said it is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph and these are more about trying to recreate the essence of my own lost childhood than documentary truths.
These photographs, then, are dedicated to the memory of my father, who while estranged from the family still managed to take us on some great journeys".
Peter Black 1995
Moving Pictures - essay by Ian Wedde
Inland - poem for Moving Pictures by Mary Macpherson
Selected images
The photographs were first published in White Horse Black Dog - Sport 15 (pub Fergus Barrowman)
" Nearly ten years on from their taking, Moving Pictures seem like fleeting, unmediated truths; their grainy, uncomposed, sombre mood seems less to describe how the country looked than how it felt. In 1986 and 1987, for many the country felt bad. It seemed like the social fabric was becoming unglued. The economy was being restructured, unemployment was high, rising interest rates were forcing farmers off the land, and then the sharemarket crashed.
However, as Robert Frank said it is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph and these are more about trying to recreate the essence of my own lost childhood than documentary truths.
These photographs, then, are dedicated to the memory of my father, who while estranged from the family still managed to take us on some great journeys".
Peter Black 1995
Moving Pictures - essay by Ian Wedde
Inland - poem for Moving Pictures by Mary Macpherson
