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| Matakana Pictures Exhibitions Artists | From the 1950s, while embarking on a career in science, Gary Blackman, besides being active in the visual arts, exhibiting paintings, drawings and prints, began to take an interest in documentary photography as a creative medium. His shared interest with architect E J McCoy in the Victorian architecture of Dunedin led to an exhibition of photographs and the publication of in 1968 of ‘Victorian City of New Zealand’. In 1975 selection of two photographs for the touring ‘Active Eye’ exhibition marked a turning point in his work and the advent of PhotoForum encouraged him to pursue an independent and serious commitment to photography. He has had several solo exhibitions and has contributed to many joint and group shows and to a number of publication, for example to W H Oliver’s biography of James K Baxter (1983). The principal public galleries and private collectors have acquired examples of his work and in 2003 he was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. |
La Lune 15.October - 11.December 2005 The house, the subject of the book shown in my photograph, was designed in every detail by the renowned philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein for his sister in Vienna. I have not see it, but its tough, uncompromising attention to form and structure appeals to me greatly as an outstandingly individualistic example of modern architecture. It is not surprising to learn that Wittgenstein first trained as an engineer. |
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Gary Blackman Reading architecture with Wittgenstein 2003 Price: $800 |
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