Dust, beer, and more
p. 100 · Read in the full issue
dust—Australia?
Australia, the land of beer, birds and barrenness, is further immortalised in a new book of photographs (not drawings) by artist Hal Missingham, out in November. My Australia is a look at Australia from the personal viewpoint of an observer of things rather than people.
To be fair, he probes into the outback and returns with not just shots of red, dusty roads and scrub; but cars hung up on trees after a sudden flood, beer cans taking the part of blooms on a desert bush and lost mining towns petrifying in the dry heat.
But as ever intent on preserv ing a legend, Mr, Missingham takes too many pictures of out back toilets, beer cans in the desert and “old-timers” all of whom are famous for their yarns. From his viewpoint you would see Australia as a land of litter, shanty towns and dust. —
Jse.
(MY AUSTRALIA. Collins. $A6.95.)