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"Lewis has opened the door to
a new way of seeing Australia" Robert McFarlane "It is the consistent
revelation of this photographer's vigorous humanity together with
Lewis's obvious delight in the sheer variation of form, age, sex,
race and vocation of his subjects that disarms most criticism. Where
the constant exposure to directly observed, standing subjects can
occasionally pall, there is almost always the parallel agenda of
Lewis's obvious affection for the people he photographs." "Defining the units and rules
which constitute such a language, Lewis made other points of visual
literacy which could also be discussed in the context of this show.
but fearing the editor's legendary impatience with all that
semio-speak, I hasten to return to the promised land where a cat is
a cat and a great show, a show which is really great." "The
technical aspects of this exhibition are superb. It is a major work
by a confident photographer. not an exhibition about photography, it
is rather a rich experience of people - the famous, the infamous and
the unknown. Like a good documentary film it takes us into places,
or in this case faces. It amazes, amuses and fascinates." "Jon
Lewis is the bur that lies beneath the saddle of Australian
photography. As a tenacious conversationalist and terminally
energetic activist. Lewis has consistently attacked all that is
pretentious in art photography while making a significant
contribution of his own through several major documentary projects
completed in the past decade" "Yet there is an unmistakable
warmth and humanity in these pictures. They form a loose travel
dairy, with people and places snapped in a seemingly unstructured
way." "His outlook is refreshingly
extrovert but with a difference. He has a deep affinity for these
people and he uses his camera with appropriate feeling, not just as
an instrument for objective recording." "There is a lot of wry humour
in these pictures, but our smiles are always affectionate." |
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