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Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Pours Soil Into Hand Of Traditional Land Owner (Gurindji) Vincent Lingiari (Wattle Creek), Northern Territory, 1975, printed 2022
digital c-type photograph
120 × 120 cm
$48,000
Merv Bishop, Australia’s first indigenous press photographer, captured this monumentally important image of Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam pouring soil into the hand of Traditional Land Owner, Vincent Lingiari in the Northern Territory in 1975. Photojournalist and photographic artist Merv Bishop undertook a four year apprenticeship at the Sydney Morning Herald from 1963 to 1967. One of the highl…
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Provenance
Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney; Private collection, Sydney
Literature
Bishop, M and Moffat, T, In Dreams. Mervyn Bishop: Thirty Years of Photography, 1960-1990. p.81 (illustrated). Held in Art Gallery of New South Wales and National Gallery of Australia.