Roger Scott (photographer)

Roger Scott is an Australian social documentary photographer and photographic printer.

In December 2001 he published a retrospective of his work, Roger Scott: From the Street, with a foreword by Gael Newton, senior curator of photography at the Australian National Gallery. In addition to 139 of Scott's photos, the book included an essay by Robert McFarlane, a fellow Australian photographer and photographic critic. In his essay, McFarlane suggested that Scott's photographs "are unique within Australian photography. The intimacies he records in the lives of his subjects show that, far from being another purist disciple of Cartier-Bresson's worthy maxim of the decisive moment, Roger Scott introduces a new kind of instant in Australian documentary photography - the irrevocable moment." [1]

Scott's work was included in Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950sā€“1970s at the Art Gallery of South Australia (2010).[2]

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Notes

  1. ā†‘ Scott, Roger & McFarlane, Robert, 1942- & Hock, Peter, 1954- & Scott, Roger, 1944- 2001, Roger Scott : from the street, Chapter & Verse, Neutral Bay, N.S.W - see also Trove summary http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/29120143
  2. ā†‘ "Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950sā€“1970s", Art Gallery of South Australia. Accessed 30 May 2011.
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