A companion to the State Library of Victoria's 'As modern as tomorrow' exhibition. Includes images held in our Pictures Collection and links to external sites. Explores individual photographers and photographic styles.
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This guide was created as a companion to the State Library's As modern as tomorrow: photographers in postwar Melbourne exhibition. The photographs in the exhibition provide unique insights into the changing social fabric of mid-20th-century Melbourne.
Featured photographers included Maggie Diaz, Norman Ikin, Helmut Newton, Athol Shmith, Wolfgang Sievers, Mark Strizic, Dacre Stubbs and Henry Talbot. Working in fields as varied as fashion, advertising, architectural and industrial photography, the talented group of commercial photographers had an eye for capturing images unlike anything Australia had ever seen.
The exhibition was held from 1 July 2011 to 5 February 2012.
Valerie Wittman Ikin, Norman Ikin, 1950, H2006.1/1
Dishes on kitchen sink in contrasting light and shadow, Mark Strizic, ca 1950, H2008.11/35
CBD from King Street Bridge H2000.195/69
Model, Flinders Gate Project, Melbourne H2007.114/11
Bowater-Scott, paper manufacturers H2007.114/11
