Photography
PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM ANALOGUE TO PIXALOGUE
In my practice, the use of the term “photography” includes traditional film photography, digital photography and digitally manipulated images. I also work with photo-like images created on a flatbed scanner with objects either in direct contact with the flatbed (Flush: 1990-2003), or making portraits where my sitters are about 50 cm away from the scanner (Scam).
Over the years photography has been my medium of choice. In the beginning it was to document, at my parent’s request, their lives in the “new country” so that they could send reassuring photographic proof back to our relatives in Italy about the “good life” in Australia (Arcadia del Sud). This series was chosen as the winner in the 2003 Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award. Gael Newton's "Art and documentary: photographic biculturalism?" critiques this work and explores the notion of what may constitute "documentary photography".
As an art and design student in the late 1960s I documented both my friends and myself in narcissistic exercises that are now partially the subject of an MFA I’m completing at Monash University (Autobiography).
In more recent times I have begun to explore the more theatrical and performative qualities of the photographic medium with staged tableaux where my sitters help me create the images (Sub-Urban Shadow Plays). In whatever guise I have used or use photography, it always seems to help me make sense of the word and satisfy my curiosity for understanding it.
I currently don’t have a gallery to represent me, but if you are interested in purchasing any of my limited edition photographic art images, please email me with your enquiry and I will provide you with availability, sizes and prices.
MC, 2009
Aborigines, Advertising, Aeroplane Jelly, All Australian, All Australian Graffiti, Ampol, ANZ Bank, Arnotts Biscuits, Arnotts Famous Biscuits, Aspro, Aussie, Aussie language, Australian Advertising, Australian Commercial Art, Australian Commercial Artists, Australian Graphic Design, Australian History, Australian icons, Australian identity, Australian language, Australian logos, Australian Made, Australian Map, Australian Nationalism, Australian packaging, Australian Trade marks, Australian erford, Gazeka, Geoff Cook, Geoffrey Blainey, Golden Fleece, Graphic Design, Griffiths Tea, Guest?s Teddy Bears, Gum Tree, History, Hutton?s, Huttons, Icon, Intellectual Property, IP, ISBN 0-646-40309-5, Italian migrants, Jaffas, Kangaroo, Kinkara, Kiwi Boot Polish, Koala, Kookaburra, Kool Mints, Laxettes, Leggo?s, Life. Be in it., Logo, Logos, Macrobertson, Made in Australia, Magpie, Magpie Cigarettes, Map of Australia, Marmite, Matchbox labels, Migrants, Mimmo, Mimmo Cozzolino, Mine Tinkit They Fit, Minties, Mortein, Mulga Wood, Nationalism, Neptune, Niggerboys, Norco, Nugget, Orlando, Patents & Trade marks, Patents and Trade Marks, Pelaco, Penguin Books, Peters Ice Cream, Phillip Adams, Pie, Platypus, Possum, Prickly Pear, Puns, Qantas, Rabbit plague, Racism, Redhead, Redheads, Rosella, Rutherford, Sherrin, Skipping Girl Vinegar, Slang, Southern Cross, Steam Rollers, Stencil Roller Flour, Stockman, Swagman, Swallow & Ariell, Symbols of Australia, TAA, Tarax, Tarzan?s Grip, Teddy Bears, Throaties, Tom Piper, Trade Mark History, Trade mark law, Trade marks, Trade Marks of Australia, Trademark History, Trademarks, Trademarks of Australia, Tucker Box, Vegemite, Velvet Soap, Vincents, Waratah, Wattle Cigarettes, White Australia Policy, Wombat, XXXX Beer, Zig and ZagTrademarks, Australiana, Ballarat Bertie, Beer Labels, Bex, Billy Tea, Boomerang, Bosisto?s, Brands, Bushells Tea, Carlton Ale, Chesty Bond, CIS Educational, Colonies, Commercial Art History, Commonwealth Bank, Cooee, Coo-ee, COR, Corporate Design, Corporate History, Corporate Identity, Corporate Image, Cozzolino, Cozzolino Ellett, CUB, Defender, Design Education, Design History, Digger, Dingo, Dinkum, Don?t Argue, Drover, Early Kooka, Eta, Fair Dinkum, Fantales, Federation, Flour Sacks, Freddo Frogs, Fysh, Fysh Ruth
