Title
Untitled (M.L.C Building, Martin Place, Sydney)
1983
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1983
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 25.8 x 25.6 cm image; 31.7 x 30.4 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1984
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 21.1984
- Copyright
- © Steven Lojewski
- Artist information
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Steven Lojewski
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About
The photographs of Steven Lojewski often reveal the unseen in the built environment, the quirky forms that seem to escape ordinary vision. Lojewski was born in London and spent early years in Canada, before moving to Melbourne and studying photography at Prahran College of Advanced Education. He moved to Sydney in the mid 1970s, where he began teaching at Sydney College of the Arts after having studied there. His work is concerned with formal elements of shape, line and texture. These elements are often juxtaposed through unlikely camera angles and sharp perspectives to create layered images. Architectural symbols are framed in isolation with simple beauty, or else thrown against each other in collages that suggest the visual fragmentation of architecture in the highly developed metropolis. In these views from Sydney rooftops, simple architectural elements such as the dome of the Queen Victoria Building are eloquently framed within Lojewski's formal compositions.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Steven Lojewski - Sydney Rooftops, Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, 05 Oct 1983–06 Nov 1983
Lady Warwick Fairfax Award 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Oct 1983–27 Nov 1983
Contemporary Photography from the Collection (1984), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jun 1984–12 Aug 1984
Five years on: a selection of acquisitions 1981-1986, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 1986–23 Nov 1986
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990
Souvenirs of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Mar 1992–10 May 1992
My city of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Sep 2000–22 Oct 2000
Australian postwar photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Jun 2004–08 Aug 2004
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Five years on: a selection of acquisitions 1981-1986, Sydney, 1986. cat.no. 165
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Natasha Bullock, Australian postwar photodocumentary, Sydney, 2004. no catalogue numbers
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Kay Vernon, Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 22
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Michael Wardell, My city of Sydney, Sydney, 2000. no catalogue numbers
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