Yellow-Blue 2002-03
Oil on canvas
171 x 230cm
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WATERMARK
My involvement is to photograph the highlights and
to interpret them with the camera in a painterly way. I
emphasise these highlights by pointing the camera
down and focusing on the subject, excluding the horizon
so one looses a point of reference and the reality often
takes on an abstract view ...
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Truth and Magic in the Age of Photoshop
Truth and Magic in the Age of Photoshop
A photograph is a physical record of a fleeting moment, of light bounced off an object, of motion rendered static, of temporality captured and held. In photography, the ephemeral is transformed through a kind of alchemy into the tangible, a slice of time be ...
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Selected Photographs
The aerial perspective is an inspiring one especially in
Australia because of its flatness and lack of roads in
the outback and some coastal areas, all of which make
for an interesting approach from which to appreciate
the variations and abstractions in our landscape.
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Saltworks
In a career that spans more than half a century, there can be few aspects of Australian life that Richard Woldendorp has not photographed. He has shown us the people, plants and animals of the land he adopted as his own when he arrived from the Netherlands in 1951. With well-known writers he has pub ...
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Coastline
Fellow photographer and reviewer, the late Max Dupain commented that Woldendorp's landscapes looked like they were made 'a million years before man arrived'. Coastlines in particular have fascinated him for their confrontation of motion and pattern in the waves and waterways and massive landforms.
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Richard Woldendorp
It was not until the 1970s, when John Olsen and Fred Williams started to paint landscapes based on aerial observation, that the subject lost its gothic overtones and became imbued with life and colour. This is the kind of landscape that Woldendorp has been photographing for more than thirty years – ...
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Down to Earth
The Australian landscape has always appealed to me. There's something about it - its spaciousness, its character, the light and its uniqueness. But it also is a very old landscape. It is the flattest and driest continent, which compared with other countries, does not manifest itself in grandeur a ...
