Roger Scott (photographer)
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Roger Scott is an Australian social documentary photographer and photographic printer.
In December 2001 he published a retrospective of his work, Roger Scott: From the Street, with a foreword by Gael Newton
, senior curator of photography at the Australian National Gallery. In addition to 139 of Scott's photos, the book included an essay by Robert McFarlane
, a fellow Australian photographer and photographic critic. In his essay, McFarlane suggested that Scott's photographs "are unique within Australian photography. The intimacies he records in the lives of his subjects show that, far from being another purist disciple of Cartier-Bresson's worthy maxim of the decisive moment, Roger Scott introduces a new kind of instant in Australian documentary photography - the irrevocable moment."
Scott's work was included in Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s
at the Art Gallery of South Australia
(2010).
In December 2001 he published a retrospective of his work, Roger Scott: From the Street, with a foreword by Gael Newton
Gael Newton
Gael Newton is the Senior Curator of Australian and International Photography at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.From 1974 to 1985 Newton was the foundation curator of photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Newton then moved to Canberra and from 1985 to 1988, was the...
, senior curator of photography at the Australian National Gallery. In addition to 139 of Scott's photos, the book included an essay by Robert McFarlane
Robert McFarlane (photographer)
Robert McFarlane is an Australian photographer and photographic critic.-Early life:Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1942, he was given a Kodak Box Brownie at the age of 9 by his parents, Bill and Poppy McFarlane...
, a fellow Australian photographer and photographic critic. In his essay, McFarlane suggested that Scott's photographs "are unique within Australian photography. The intimacies he records in the lives of his subjects show that, far from being another purist disciple of Cartier-Bresson's worthy maxim of the decisive moment, Roger Scott introduces a new kind of instant in Australian documentary photography - the irrevocable moment."
Scott's work was included in Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s
Candid Camera (Australian photographic exhibition)
Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s was a group retrospective exhibition of social documentary photography held at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 28 May to 1 August 2010....
at the Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia , located on the cultural boulevard of North Terrace in Adelaide, is the premier visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of over 35,000 works of art, making it, after the National Gallery of Victoria, the largest state...
(2010).
Book
- Scott, Roger. Roger Scott: From the Street. Neutral Bay, NSW: Chapter and Verse, 2001. ISBN 0947322248.