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"John Austin's black and white photographs are a means of showing his world as clearly as possible. This holds for his documentary images of environmental degradation and artists portraits as well as his more personal work with land and people
The apparent simplicity of John's images belie the depth and meditative awareness that illuminates his work, qualities that are revealed by viewing original prints
To achieve the sensuous quality of his prints John uses the largest format cameras practical in any situation with lenses from the early part of the 20th Century. His use of large negatives is melded with his mastery of silver gelatine printing, the only easiy available fine archival black and white photographic print medium"
Rae Starr
18th November 2009
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31 December 2009
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Negative Refiling
I am going through my negative log and discarding everything that was boring and commercial boring. I am slightly erring on the safe side, keeping all my architectural photography of the reconstruction of Georgian Bath, arts festivals like ARX and Festival Fringe, artists portraits, SFA etc. However, the workroom floor is already knee deep in negs. Even supposed important stuff like portraits of composer Tristram Carey, of Dr Who music fame, are discarded as they were on chromogenic BW film. A later set have been kept as they were on real silver BW film. Nothing commercial from the last 10 years is being disposed of at this stage. All colour negative work has been discarded already
So, anyone who might have BW negatives over 10 years old they want kept or delivered to them free are asked to contact me as soon as possible
Quinninup, Western Australia 6258
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