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Mark Strizic
21Dec12
Mark Strizic, Flinders St Station, c1962 The great Melbourne photographer Mark Strizic has died at age 84. Strizic was born in Berlin in 1928 and migrated to Australia in 1950, part of that immigrant wave to the new world from an exhausted Europe. He became a photographer of Melbourne, recording its modernist architecture for clients […]
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Luminous Cities at the NGV
24Jan11
Wolfgang Sievers, Old Frankfurt before its destruction in World War II, 1937 Luminous Cities looks at the photography of cities since the early days of the medium. Each picture acts as a signpost along a timeline, punctuating a period’s significant approach to the representation of cities. There are some very fine, unfamiliar pictures, for example […]
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Strizic flat bed
Mark Strizic, Centreway Arcade, 259 Collins Street, Melbourne, 1960 Here’s a curiosity: Mark Strizic was not long in professional photography when he made this image in Collins St – when there was still a Collins St to photograph. He had taught himself photography with 35mm cameras, but with architectural commisions, he needed a more adjustable camera […]
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