Australia - Darkside II Exhibition

Stewart, C

Australia - Darkside II Exhibition

Stewart, C

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Publisher:: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: Darkside II: Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Stewart, C	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Stahel, U	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Winterthur, DOF	en_US
dc.date	2009-09-05	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Darkside II: Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/31849
dc.description.abstract	The large-scale photograph Australia from the Insecurity series was included in the exhibition Darkside II: Power, Violence, Disease and Death Photographed at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland . The museums Director Urs Stahel curated the exhibition and he along with Fotomuseum is regarded as one of the most important photography museums in the world. The exhibition included many important photographic practitioners including Nan Goldin, Walker Evans, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Christian Boltanski, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Sophie Calle. A substantial 368-page full-colour hardback monograph including Stewarts work was published by the preeminent photographic publisher Steidl to accompany the exhibition. The work belongs to a wider group of documentary photographs taken internationally and the Australia section includes photographs of private security personnel training. Private security is a modern service industry that has grown exponentially in recent years and it is a little documented culture. Stewart has spent years developing his contacts within this secretive world and the resulting work is a rare glimpse of an industry which is usually closed to outside scrutiny. In looking at the construction of training scenarios the work also highlights the slippery notion of what is real in relationship to documentary photography as the `reality Stewart photographs are orchestrated but not by the photographer himself. The work therefore has also contributed to debates about photography itself and has been widely exhibited and published including at the UKs National Museum of Photography, Film and Television and the Whitechapel Gallery in London.	en_US
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.publisher	Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Darkside II: Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed	en_US
dc.title	Australia - Darkside II Exhibition	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland	en_US
utslib.location.activity	http://www.fotomuseum.ch/PREVIEW-REVIEW.preview-review.3.html?id=391&tx_exhibitions_pi1[L]=1&L=1&tx_	en_US
utslib.for	1203 Design Practice and Management	en_US
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pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.place-of-publication	Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland	en_US
pubs.start-date	2009-09-05	en_US

Abstract:

The large-scale photograph Australia from the Insecurity series was included in the exhibition Darkside II: Power, Violence, Disease and Death Photographed at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland . The museums Director Urs Stahel curated the exhibition and he along with Fotomuseum is regarded as one of the most important photography museums in the world. The exhibition included many important photographic practitioners including Nan Goldin, Walker Evans, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Christian Boltanski, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Sophie Calle. A substantial 368-page full-colour hardback monograph including Stewarts work was published by the preeminent photographic publisher Steidl to accompany the exhibition. The work belongs to a wider group of documentary photographs taken internationally and the Australia section includes photographs of private security personnel training. Private security is a modern service industry that has grown exponentially in recent years and it is a little documented culture. Stewart has spent years developing his contacts within this secretive world and the resulting work is a rare glimpse of an industry which is usually closed to outside scrutiny. In looking at the construction of training scenarios the work also highlights the slippery notion of what is real in relationship to documentary photography as the `reality Stewart photographs are orchestrated but not by the photographer himself. The work therefore has also contributed to debates about photography itself and has been widely exhibited and published including at the UKs National Museum of Photography, Film and Television and the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

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