David moore computer biography photographer

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For further information please contact NPG Copyright. David Moore — Updated Portraits view all David Moore, Corio, Victoria printed David Moore part 2. David Moore part 1. Moore was educated —39 at Tudor House primary school when, at age 11, he was given a Coronet box camera , before graduating to Kodak 1A folding camera, given to him by his father who inspired his son's interest in the medium when he brought home a book on the work of Edward Weston.

In , having begun studies in architecture, Moore decided on a photography career, which he began in the advertising and illustration studio of Russell Roberts in Sydney. Moore was amongst fifteen exhibitors, mostly Sydney professionals, in the first exhibition in Moore's work started being exhibited [ 16 ] and published, in when he was 21, with a double page spread in a Sunday supplement of The Sydney Morning Herald being devoted to his series on the preparation of an ocean liner for its return journey to the UK, [ 17 ] and inclusion in a book Australian Photography.

The couple returned to Australia on RMS Orion , 2 August , [ 20 ] the year of his father's death in December, [ 21 ] in time for the opening of a solo exhibition of Moore's work at Macquarie Galleries , [ 22 ] [ 23 ] He contributed picture stories to local publications including Walkabout , [ 24 ] [ 25 ] but continued to be commissioned by, [ 26 ] and sell existing work to, American and British magazines, represented by the New York-based Black Star photo agency from After the birth of twins in August , [ 28 ] Moore diversified the commercial applications of his photography; his semi-abstract murals depicting the four elements fire, earth, air and water decorated the dining room in the refurbishment of the Carlton-Rex Hotel in Sydney; [ 29 ] and large panels of Moore images were exhibited at the Australian stand at the Comptoir Suisse at the Palais de Beaulieu , in Lausanne, which was attended by an audience of over a million.

Moore was early recognised as a significant practitioner. Another early image, also made while apprenticed to Dupain, of a struggling family in working class Redfern was included in Edward Steichen 's major exhibition " The Family of Man ", which originated at the Museum of Modern Art and toured the world. Commentator Craig McGregor regarded Moore as amongst a few who had "made the crucial breakthrough in Australian photography".

In December a group show of these works was held, the first representation of photography at the new National Gallery of Victoria quarters in St Kilda Road. Moore participated in, and judged, photographic exhibitions throughout his career. In the s Moore developed non-commissioned works aimed at capturing what he called "the soft flow of time", [ 9 ] as opposed to the "decisive moment" favoured by magazine editors.

Much of such work by him was exhibited in commercial galleries. Throughout his career, Moore made portraits of significant Australians and international personalities, either in formal sittings or more often as part of his reportage, and many as part of his contribution to journalist and provocateur Craig McGregor's cultural survey In The Making.

Moore promoted his profession and encouraged others, workers and amateurs, through his lectures, [ 49 ] including at the YMCA Camera Circle, [ 50 ] and his judging of competitions in Australia. He contributed energetically to research into historical Australian photography, making in an archive of gelatin silver prints from the collection of Henri Mallard's glass negatives that were published in association with Sun Books in , [ 56 ] and from , researching Australian photography for a book Australia, Image of a Nation , that was published in October During the s he was an influential figure in the development of art photography, and as a dedicated advocate for the acceptance of photography as a legitimate art form was a driving force, with Wesley Stacey , behind the establishment the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.

Moore's works have been acquired for collections of the major public galleries and libraries across Australia, and are in institutions in France, the USA and China. Moore married West Australian Jennifer Flintoff in while they were both in London, he freelancing and she teaching in the East End , [ 62 ] and they had four children. They divorced in Moore died on 23 January of oesophageal cancer at a private hospital in Longueville, New South Wales , aged The first retrospective of Moore's work, held in at the Australian Centre for Photography , Sydney, [ 65 ] was acquired by the Australian National Gallery now renamed the National Gallery of Australia.

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