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Mervyn Bishop was Australia’s first Aboriginal press photographer. In speaking of his time at the Sydney Morning Herald (where he commenced a four year photography cadetship in 1962) Bishop has said: "I had entered the assimilated world of the White institution. There were very few Aboriginal people in any profession and hardly any that I could share my experience with in Sydney. My Aboriginality was in different places, but there was no place for it at the Herald and at that time work played a large part in my life and future plans." |
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| Artist: | BISHOP, Mervyn |
| Birth/Death Country: | Australia |
| Birth/Death Date: | 1945 |
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| Title/date: | Far West Children's Health Clinic, Manly 1968 |
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| Technique: | gelatin silver photograph |
| Support: | white semi-gloss Agfa photographic paper |
| Size: | comp 30.1 x 30.2 sheet 40.3 x 30.4 |
| Credit Line: | Purchased 1991 |