Title
Crowd control, LBJ visit, Brisbane
1966
printed 1997
Artist
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Details
- Dates
- 1966
printed 1997 - Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 41.2 x 50.7 cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. verso, pencil “... 1966 / David Moore”.
- Credit
- Gift of Karen, Lisa, Matthew and Michael Moore 2004
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 54.2004
- Copyright
- © Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore
- Artist information
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David Moore
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This image by David Moore of then US president Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) depicts a crowd of excited men and women being held back by policemen. The first American president to visit Australia, Johnson’s three-day, five-city tour in 1966 was made to say thank you for Australia’s support in the Vietnam War (the tour included a state reception at the Art Gallery of New South Wales). Cause for much anticipation, Johnson’s brief visit also sparked a series of anti-war protests, notably in Sydney where activists lay before the motorcade on Oxford Street. Moore’s photograph shows just some of the almost two hundred thousand people who came to see LBJ in Brisbane, an important moment in Australia’s coming-of-age as a nation.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
David Moore: the unseen images, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Nov 1997–18 Jan 1998
Australian vernacular photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Feb 2014–18 May 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Judy Annear, David Moore: the unseen images, Sydney, 1997, 43, 88 (illus.). no catalogue numbers
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