David Moore
(1927 - 2003)
MIGRANTS ARRIVING IN SYDNEY, 1966
silver gelatin photograph
31.0 x 45.0 cm (sight)
57.5 x 69.5 cm (frame)
signed, dated and inscribed with title below image: Migrants arriving in Sydney – 1966 / David Moore
bears inscription verso: 14
Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000
Sold:
$23,318 (inc. BP)
© Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore
lot details
57.5 x 69.5 cm (frame)
bears inscription verso: 14
Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired directly from the artist
Exhibited
The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002, cat. 14
Australian Postwar Photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 June – 8 August 2004 (another example)
David Moore: 100 Photographs, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 November 2005 – 5 March 2006, cat. 69 (another example)
The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 March – 8 June 2015, and touring (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue p.105)
Literature
Newton, G., Shades of Light – Photography and Australia 1839-1988, Sydney, 1988, p. 129 (illus., another example)
Neill, R., ‘The Big Picture’, The Weekend Australian, Sydney, 14 – 15 March 2015, p. 4 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the AGNSW, NGV, NGA, NPG and the NLA.

