The thousand mile stare : a photographic exhibition

Curated by Joyce Agee ; edited by David Bennett. Melbourne : The Victorian Centre for Photography Inc., 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (by Robert Ashton), pp. 118, illustrated, previous owner’s name to endpaper.

The thousand mile stare was a Victorian Centre for Photography bicentennial project that comprised a survey exhibition of photographic practice from the last 25 years.

The artists involved in the exhibition and catalogue were Jennifer Aitken, Robert Ashton, Bashir Baraki, Chris Barry, Robert Besanko, Terence Bogue, Warren Breninger, Francis Busby, Nanette Carter, Sebastian Costanzo, John Cato, Toni Chaffey, Evan Clark, Paul Cox, Seham Abi-Elias, Michelle Ely, Sue Ford, Glenda Gerrard, John Gollings, Peter Gray, Janina Green, Ponch Hawkes, Angie Heinl, Bill Henson, Rob Imhoff, Carol Jerrems, Leah King-Smith, Christopher Koller, O. Philip Korczynski, Andrew Lehmann, Angela Lynkushka, Peter Lyssiotis, Ruth Maddison, Bill McCann, Craig McGee, John O’Neil, Bernie O’Regan, Polixeni Papapetrou, Wes Placek, Dyranda Prevost, Tim  Rowston, Bernard Sachs, Wolfgang Sievers, Robert Slatyer, David Tatnall, Les Walkling, Kath Walters, Ben Wrigley.

Includes reproductions of rare photographic posters including a promotional poster for the rare book by Virginia Fraser and Carol Jerrems ‘A book about Australian women’.