Carol Jerrems’ personal-documentary style of photography shows a gritty, poetic and intimate view of a new wave of photographers and a new way of life emerging from the urban environment of the 1970s. The photographs capture the hopes and aspirations of the counter-culture of the 1970s, concerned with issues of social change, such as women’s liberation, social inclusiveness for youth on the streets, and Indigenous campaigns for justice and land rights.
This National Gallery of Australia (NGA) travelling exhibition features rare photographs from the NGA’s archive, and shows that her images have come to define a decade in Australia’s history.
Monash Gallery of Art
6 July to 28 September, 2013
Melbourne
Vale Street, 1975, gelatin silver photograph, 20.2 x 30.3cm
Courtesy the artist, the National Gallery of Australia and the Estate of Lance Jerrems
