Beverley Clifford

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Beverley Clifford was an Australian magazine photographer and photojournalist active during the 1950s-1970s.

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Career

Beverley Clifford produced photographs for magazines, books, government [1] [2] [3] [4] and commercial commissions and projects, much of it made on the Northern Beaches and in Sydney during her professional career. Husband Ken also worked as a medical photographer at the University of Sydney and the couple collaborated on a number of projects.

In 1991, collector Dale Egan of Warriewood discovered a trove of 4,000 lost photos of Sydney beaches made between the 1930s and the 1970s by the Cliffords. [5] [6]

Critical reception

Clifford worked in the mid-1950s as a government typist [7] before joining a number of women infiltrating the field of professional freelance photojournalism that had so long been the domain of men. [8] She was sole illustrator for the 1969 coffee table book, Sydney, more than a harbor : a photographic glance at a surging city [9] that was reviewed in by ’Scrutarius’ (journalist H. C. (Peter) Fenton) in Walkabout magazine [10] in which he writes that while the obvious landmarks of the "bridge and the opera house, “Paddo’s” iron lacework, Bondi and Manly beaches, the post office colonnade and the tall glass boxes that, with telephoto lens treatment, constricts Pitt Street into more of a claustrophobic canyon than it really is,..." and a soccer crowd which...

Photographically...is well justified by the warmly appropriate touch of an argument erupting in the near foreground. Indeed, most of the behind-scenes pictures seem to have been selected for the human quirks they encapsulate—the fiercely vocal woman at a political meeting, the clasped couple testing Luna Park’s “love-meter”, the patience of anglers on a jetty’s timbers and of passengers sitting in front of Central’s train indicator board, the extraordinary character declaiming in the Domain. These are all quite cleverly caught in action or inaction.

Clifford contributed images for a number of other books on Australia, including Camera in Australia published in 1970, which also included work by Max Dupain, Kerry Dundas, David Moore, and Wolfgang Sievers, [11] and I. V. Hansen's The tiger and the Rose. [12]

Award

Artiste (AFIAP) 1967. [13]

Magazine articles

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References

  1. ↑ Clifford, Beverley. "Immigration In Australia by Beverley Clifford, fl.1950s-1970s Aust on Josef Lebovic Gallery". Josef Lebovic Gallery. Archived from the original on 3 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "CONTRACTS ARRANGED". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette . No. 86. Australia. 2 September 1971. p. 5683. Retrieved 3 November 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "CONTRACTS ARRANGED". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette . No. 56. Australia. 17 May 1973. p. 27. Retrieved 3 November 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "CONTRACTS ARRANGED". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette . No. 76. Australia. 17 August 1972. p. 34. Retrieved 3 November 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Pillow talk: Manly's memory lane". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. 30 July 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  6. ↑ "Iconic pictures of a younger Sydney". PerthNow. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  7. ↑ "APPOINTMENTS, RETIREMENTS AND DISMISSALS". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette . No. 63. Australia. 15 October 1953. p. 2850. Retrieved 3 November 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ Newton, Gael. Gender, journeys and genres [online]. Eyeline, Vol. 24, Autumn/Winter 1994: 18-22
  9. ↑ Clifford, Beverley; Richards, Barbara (1969), Sydney, more than a harbor : a photographic glance at a surging city, Murray, retrieved 31 October 2019
  10. ↑ Australian Geographical Society (1 September 1969), "MORE THAN A HARBOR (1 September 1969)", Walkabout, 35 (9), Australian National Travel Association, ISSN   0043-0064
  11. ↑ Gray, Allen G, (ed.); Australian Photographic Society (1970), Camera in Australia, Reed, for the Australian Photographic Society, ISBN   978-0-589-07070-0 {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Hansen, I. V. (Ian Victor) (1966), The tiger and the rose, Oxford U.P, retrieved 3 November 2019
  13. ↑ Oldfield, David; Howey, Heather, (author.); Australian Photographic Society, (issuing body.) (2013), The Australian Photographic Society Inc. : the first fifty years, Australian Photographic Society Inc, retrieved 31 October 2019{{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ "Trove search results for '"Beverley Clifford"' - Pictures, photos, objects". Trove. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  15. ↑ Clifford, Beverley. "Image search, State Library of NSW". search.sl.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
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