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| Harvest. |
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| Offering. |
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| Labour. |
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| Husbandry. |
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| Composition (Man with Scythe). |
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| Clearing, Mona Vale. |
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| Untitled (Man with Axe). |
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| The Diver. |
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| Untitled (Man in Surf). ** |
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| Karl with Discus. ** |
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| Man in Snowshoes. |
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| Finlandia. |
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| Javelin. ** |
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| Rehearsal. |
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| The Sheaf. |
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| Earth's Riches. |
All images circa 1940, except ** late 1930s.
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Eric Keast Burke (16 January 1896, Christchurch – 31 March 1974, Sydney), New Zealand-born photographer and journalist. His family moved to Sydney when he was eight years old, and he went on to study economics at the University of Sydney. During World War I, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and served as a sapper with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. Soon after his return to Sydney in 1920, he became an associate editor of the Australasian Photo-Review; he would work with the publication until 1956. He married in 1925, a union that would produce a daughter and three sons. He exhibited his work internationally, and in 1938 was elected an associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain for a portfolio of male figure studies. That same year he was appointed Australian chairman of Kodak International Salons of Photography. He went on to hold several important editorial and managerial positions in the world of Australian photography, and was instrumental in generating interest in the preservation of historical photography in the country. He died in 1974 at the age of seventy-eight.
These look like outtakes from a Nazi-free version of Olympia — that's meant as a compliment. Thanks for introducing me to Mr. Burke.
ReplyDeleteYes, guilt-free admiration! : )
DeleteStriking images of farm workers and the male figure. Thank you for this mini-showcase of Eric Burke photographs.
ReplyDeletethree years later -Rj/IE
Was "Bright under the sky" an exhibit of these phots or a published book of them, or both? I feel that there is an unspoken story - - about the photographer, and about the photographed- - embedded in these photographs, but obviously not everyone may see the same.
ReplyDeleteNo, "Bright under the sky" was only the name I came up with for the post title. But, yes, a story of some sort seems to inhabit this group, I hope encouraged by the way I arranged the post.
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