David Moore (1927 - 2003)

Migrants arriving in Sydney, 1966

printed 2026
colour digital photograph

67.0 x 100.0 cm (image)
100.5 x 131.5 cm (frame)

bears inscription with estate stamp and signed by Lisa Moore, executor, verso: Migrants arriving in Sydney – 1966 by David Moore / Authorised edition 2/10 L. Moore / Printed 2026, large colour issue

Estate of the artist, Sydney
Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Company collection, Sydney

David Moore Retrospective 1940-1976, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 8 June – 3 July 1976 (black and white example)
David Moore: 50 Years of Photographs, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 November – 11 December 1988 (black and white example)
David Moore: A Survey, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 28 April – 17 May 1990 (another example)
Sydney Harbour: David Moore: 50 Years of Photography, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 October 1993 – 27 February 1994 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 129, black and white example)
David Moore 1927-2003: Photographs from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 February – 16 March 2003 (black and white example)
Australian Postwar Photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 June – 8 August 2004 (black and white example)
David Moore: 100 Photographs, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 November 2005 – 5 March 2006, cat. 69 (black and white example)
Great Collections, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 24 July – 30 August 2009 (black and white example)
The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 March – 8 June 2015; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 4 July – 11 October 2015 (black and white example)

Byron, S., David Moore: Australian Photographer, Chapter & Verse, Sydney, 1988, vol. I, p. 123 (illus., black and white example)
Newton, G., Shades of Light – Photography and Australia 1839-1988, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1988, p. 129 (illus., black and white example)
Annear, J., The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015, p. 105 (illus., black and white example)
Neill, R., ‘The Big Picture’, The Weekend Australian, Sydney, 14 – 15 March 2015, p. 4 (illus., black and white example)

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and the National Library of Australia, Canberra

This work was reproduced as an Australia Post stamp on 24 March 2026