Artist: David Dixon Porter
Datum: 1973
Veličina: 19 x 24 cm
Muzej: Penrith Regional Gallery - Home of the Lewers Bequest (Emu Plains, Australia)
Tehnika: Photograph
In the early 1970s David Porter was a contributing photographer for some of the most influential Australian Rock music and underground publications (Go-Set, Daily/Planet, Rolling Stone (Australian Edition), The Digger. Porter was based in Melbourne, his subject the zeitgeist of its Rock/Pop music, underground theatre, and Counterculture scenes, sometimes working as ‘David Porter’, sometimes ‘Jacques L’Affrique’, sometimes ‘Jack Africa’. In 1973 he left Melbourne, stopped working in commercial photography, and pursued a teaching career.CAPTAIN MATCHBOX WHOOPEE BAND (1968-80)Played jug-infused blues, jazz, swing, popular standards, cabaret, sideshow, and vaudeville schtick, tap dancing, juggling, magic, and fire-eating. Mic Conway (lead vocals, washboard, ukulele), Jim Conway (harmonica, kazoo, vocals), Mick Fleming (banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocals), Dave Hubbard (guitar), David Isom (guitar, vocals), Jeffrey Cheesman (guitar, vocals), Inge de Koster (violin), John McDiarmid (tea-chest bass, flute), Jim Niven (piano/organ). Popular at Melbourne ‘head venues’ such as the T F Much/Much More Ballroom (filmed there by Peter Weir for Three Directions in Australian Pop Music (1972). Long association with Melbourne alternative theatre scene, notably Tribe, La Mama, and The Pram Factory. Created Soapbox Circus in 1976, which combined the musical and performative talents of Captain Matchbox and the Australian Performing Group (leading to the establishing 0f Circus Oz (1978). Issued four albums (‘Smoke Dreams’ (1973), ‘Wangaratta Wahine’ (1974), ‘Australia’ (1975), ‘Slightly Troppo’ (1978). This photograph was originally published in:It Sure is Hard Making Whoopee. Go-Set, 13 January 1973 (p.21)Smoke Dreams (1973) Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band album centrefold (detail)
Artist |
|
|---|---|
Preuzimanje |
|
Dozvole |
Besplatno za nekomercijalnu uporabu. Pogledaj ispod. |
 |
This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. However - you may not use this image for commercial purposes and you may not alter the image or remove the watermark. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.
|
Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may
not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the
