Photographs, chiefly architectural, ca. 1949-1969 / photographed by Kerry Dundas

PXD 1006

fonds

ca. 1949-1969

Graphic Materials, Photographs

457527

Photographs - 38.3 x 40.5 cm. or smaller - 16 silver gelatin photoprints

Kerry Dundas was born Sydney, 1931, the son of artist Douglas Dundas. He first meant to be an artist but discovered photography at Sydney Grammar.
After leaving school, he began a three year apprenticeship in 1948 in Monte Luke's portrait studio. This largely involved washing wedding prints until he graduated to commercial photography with Gervaise Purcell and then to Max Dupain in 1951, where he could work in architectural and industrial illustration.
Documentary photography was influential then and Dundas followed his generation overseas to break into photojournalism. He had exhibited in the "Six Photographers" group exhibition in 1955 before his departure in 1958.
In London, Dundas became a photojournalist, covering unemployment in Ireland for the Observer and a story on the Notting Hill riots, among others. He then worked freelance in Italy before an assignment to photograph homes and gardens in Europe. He was published in The Sunday Times, Vogue, The Guradian and The Geographical magazine.
After 7 years abroad, he returned in 1967 with his wife Roberta. He had done work for the American magazine market and felt that stories on the Pacific area would be welcomed. A book illustrating aspects of New Guinea followed in 1969. He was appointed photographer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1972. -- Biographical notes from: Silver and grey : fifty years of Australian photography 1900-1950 / edited and with text by Gael Newton ; foreword by Edmund Capon. London ; Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1980

1. Martin Place from Castlereagh Street corner, ca. 1949
2. Lifting a steel wheel, BHP, ca. 1955
3. Herbie Marks, accordionist and comedian, ca. 1958
4-5. Hallway and dining room, Lindesay, Darling Point, ca. 1965
6-7. Clubbe Hall, Frensham School (architect Keith Cottier), 1967
8. Harry & Penelope Seidler house, Killara, 1967
9. Unidentified sandstone and corrugated iron house with timber veranda columns
10. Bondi Beach from a window of Lady Mary Fairfax's house, ca. 1968
11. Smith house, West Pennant Hills, designed by Enrico Taglietti, 1967
12. Bookies, Rose Hill Racecourse, 1955
13. Crew members in a Wessex helicopter from HMS Victorious nonchalantly survey the Sydney scene, 1967
14. Minis and maxis, lunchtime fashion, Australia Square, ca. 1969
15. Winning horse, Warwick Farm, 1955
16. Plaza lunchtime crowd and fountain, Australia Square, ca. 1969

Photographer's stamp on the reverse of 7 photographs, no.16 of which is also signed
Some titled on the reverse by photographer
Captioned and dated by the Curator of Photographs (May-June 2007)
All photographs are vintage prints; those from the 1950's are from his period at the Dupain studio. -- Note from the Mitchell file
No.13 published in Professional photography, 1967