Australian Centre for Photography

The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) is a not-for-profit photography gallery in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia that was established in 1973. ACP also provides part-time courses and community programs. It is one of the longest running contemporary art spaces in Australia.[1]

Australian Centre for Photography
Established1973 (1973)
Location72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
TypeCharity
FounderDavid Moore and Wes Stacey
Websiteacp.org.au

The Australian Centre for Photography has published Photofile, a biannual photography journal,[2] since 1983.

The ACP is a charity.

Function

The Australian Centre for Photography provides a photography gallery[3] and also part-time courses[4] and community programs.

History

The Australian Centre for Photography was founded in 1973[3] by David Moore and Wes Stacey,[5][6] with support from Laurie Le Guay and Craig McGregor.[7] It opened its first gallery in Paddington Street, Sydney, in 1974.[1] In 1981 it moved to 257 Oxford Street, Paddington[1] and in 2015 it moved again to 72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney.[8][9][10]

The ACP produced the first major retrospectives of Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and Mervin Bishop.[3] It has also held exhibitions by Stephen Dupont,[11] Elif Suyabatmaz and Markus Andersen,[12] Bill Henson,[3] Tracey Moffatt,[3] William Yang,[3] Trent Parke,[3] as well as other exhibitions by Cotton[13] and Dupain.[14]

Photofile

The ACP has published Photofile, a photography journal, since 1983.

Photofile was relaunched in 2017 under the new editorship of Daniel Boetker-Smith.[15]

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See also

References
  1. "Australian Centre for Photography". Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  2. "Australian Centre for Photography [closed at this location]". Time Out Sydney. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  3. "Australian Centre For Photography". SBS (Australian TV channel). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  4. "Australian Centre for Photography - Create NSW". New South Wales government. 15 November 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  5. Australia, National Gallery of. "The Spread of Time: The photography of David Moore". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  6. "David Moore, National Portrait Gallery". National Portrait Gallery (Australia). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  7. "Revealing the humanity within". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  8. "Australian Centre for Photography to Leave Paddington". Concrete Playground. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  9. "Australian Centre for Photography Project Space Gallery". Time Out Sydney. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  10. "Australian Centre for Photography nets $5m at auction". The Australian Financial Review. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  11. "The Outside Land". The Guardian. 3 July 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  12. ""Mirrored" at the Australian Centre for Photography". Broadsheet. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  13. Blake, Elissa (2 May 2015). "The Photograph and Australia: behind Olive Cotton's iconic and sensual photograph". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  14. O'Brien, Kerrie (10 May 2017). "Forget Dupain's Sunbaker, the beach represents atrocities as much as a playground". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  15. "Photofile Magazine Relaunch". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 19 June 2018.

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