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Author Cox, Paul.

Title John Cato : retrospective / edited by Paul Cox and Bryan Gracey
Published Melbourne, Vic. : Wilkinson Publishing, [2013]
Melbourne, Victoria : Wilkinson Publishing, [2013]
©2013
©2013

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 W'PONDS  770.924 Cato Cox/Jcr  AVAILABLE
Description 1 volume : iIlustrations, portraits ; 32 cm
regular print
Summary In his photographic essays, Cato explores the harsh beauty and spiritual force of the outback. His images, fashioned from the extreme light and shade of the southern sun, have an almost sculptural intensity: a termite-ridden fence-post pierced with rusty-wire, the wind-furrowed surface of a water hole, the twisted bark of a gum tree. They are beautiful pictures, realised with great technical control, but Cato is not content to see himself merely as an 'artist' or a 'photographer'. He describes himself - in his beliefs - as an 'animist': I believe that rocks have souls just as much as people. I think the word that has been used about my work which pleases me the most, is elemental, and it is that element of life within the landscape that to some is a deep religious experience. It is a vision that he traces back to the mythology of the Ancient Greeks, but it has interesting resonances, too, with the beliefs of the Australian aboriginals and the practice of their art
Analysis Australian
Individual artists (Australia)
Photography (Australia)
All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
Notes Includes factual information on endpapers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate, General
Subject Cato, John, 1926-
Cato, John Chester, 1926-2011
Cato, John Chester, 1926-
Photojournalists -- Australia -- Biography.
Photographers -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
College teachers -- Australia -- Photography -- Biography.
Photojournalists -- Australia.
Landscape photographers -- Australia -- Biography.
College teachers -- Australia -- Biography.
Landscape photographers -- Australia.
Photographers -- Australia -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies.
Exhibition catalogs.
Author Cox, Paul, 1940-2016, editor
Gracey, Bryan, editor
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