Young smokers, Southam Street, 1956 North Kensington
1956; printed (c. 1960)
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of The Herald & Weekly Times Limited, Fellow, 1990
© The Estate of Roger Mayne
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
“There are two kinds of photographs. There's the decisive moment and there's the contrived photograph and I think contrived photography has come back rather. But the kind of photography I like is the decisive moment, and I think the power of photography is in this. I think - to paraphrase Susan Sontag - the fascination of photography is as a trace of an event that has actually happened.”
Roger Mayne
Artwork Details
inscribed in pencil (on reverse) u.l.: VINTAGE PRINT C ' 60
artist stamp in ink (on reverse) c.: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / ROGER MAYNE
inscribed in pen c.: I M 8
inscribed in pencil (on reverse) l.c.: Roger Mayne '56
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of The Herald & Weekly Times Limited, Fellow, 1990
© The Estate of Roger Mayne
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