Best Fine Art Photographers in Australia with Limited Edition Prints for Sale

[Nicole]

Who are some of the best and or most sought after fine art photographers in Australia with top quality limited edition photographs for sale today?

Prints can be colour or b&w.

Can we compile a list of names with their websites (if they have one) and location?

I'll get the list started...


ELLIE YOUNG
http://www.goldstreetstudios.com.au/index.html
Melbourne, Victoria

DAVID TATNALL
http://www.davidtatnall.com/
Melbourne, Victoria

GEORGE CADDY
http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2008/arts/beachobatics/index.html
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/exhibitions/2008/jitterbug/index.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/01/08/1231004167858.html
Sydney, Australia

 

[Maris]

Who are some of the best and or most sought after fine art photographers in Australia with top quality limited edition photographs for sale today?

It is unusual in art commentary to include "best", "sought after", "top quality limited edition". and "sale" in the same breath.

The very very best are unlikely to play the art-commodity market game and as for "limited edition" product this is arguably inferior to the grand singular original piece. From a collector's point of view I won't touch limited editions. It does not enhance my joy in possessing a valuable work to know there are a dozen more or a hundred more exactly like it out there somewhere.

A place to delve into the stratosphere of Australian photography (real photography, no ink-jets, strictly APUG style) could be Point Light Gallery in Sydney. The director Gordon Undy is famous for expensive and very expensive platinotypes and his eye in selecting photographers, Australian and foreign, has been pretty consistent for many years.

A venue at the other end of the scale could be the Queensland Centre for Photography in Brisbane. This place will hang anything with a "photo" echo, ink-jets, editions, colorful bacteria, whatever passes muster in this mad mad post-modern world.

An island of dispassionate scholarship on photography should be the collection of the Australian National Gallery in Canberra. But the identification of photographic worth is controversial even here. Virtually none of their "contemporary " holdings would qualify for the walls of Point Light Gallery and the old stuff, Dupain, Kauffmann, Bostock, and the like wouldn't get much of a run in Brisbane.

 

[Nicole]

It is unusual in art commentary to include "best", "sought after", "top quality limited edition". and "sale" in the same breath.

Good morning to you Maris. As a collector, curator and photographer I don't mind asking a direct question with purpose. Thank you for supplying the names of galleries.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Nicole- I don't know what you'd think of him, but a good photo friend of mine would be someone I'd look into if I were you- Garrie Maguire. If you like his work, great, if not, well no great loss. Garrie Maguire's Art Photo page

 

[Mick Fagan]

Scott, thanks for the link to Garrie Maguire, I have seen an exhibition in Melbourne, where at least one of his pieces was exhibited.

I remembered his name, but didn't know much about him, now I know a fair bit more.

Mick.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

NICOLE BOENIG MCGRADE...

 

[Nicole]

Aiii, thank you Kevin, very kind indeed!!
Please can we keep the recommendations coming...