All of Us
Michel Lawrence
This book is a remarkable record of the transformation of modern Australia from a simple Anglo-Saxon convict settlement to today’s multicultural society. Photographer Michel Lawrence has not only recorded the great variety of today’s Australians, but he has also recorded their stories, chronicling their often far-distant places of birth along with the sometimes dangerous and adventurous paths they took to arrive on these shores.
It’s a rich tapestry of the people of the world who have all chosen to call Australia home.
The result has been a two-year odyssey for Michel, meeting people from many different regions — in some cases, from places he had not even heard of. The outcome is a wonderful visual record of how the world’s most isolated continent has become a haven from the brutality, extreme hardship, and unrelenting horrors in many other countries.
Michel Lawrence
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Michel Lawrence was born in Sydney and grew up in Melbourne and has been photographing people all his life.
His work is represented in various private and public collections, most notably the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne University and a number of regional galleries including the large collection of portraits of Australian painters at the Castlemaine Gallery in Central Victoria.
His work also forms a part of the permanent collection of the Melbourne Performing Arts Museum and includes portraits of comedians, musicians, actors and theatrical producers from the 1970s and 1980s.
Michel has staged major exhibitions at Stuart Purves' Australian Galleries in both Melbourne and Sydney.
His book, Framed: Portraits of Australian Painters was published by Hardie Grant in 1998 and is now out of print.
His work has also been reproduced in major metropolitan newspapers and magazines such as The Australian, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, the Herald Sun, Good Weekend and Harpers Bazaar.
Website: http://allofus.com.au/
Extent: 228pp
Size: 300mm x 300mm
ISBN (13): 9781921215193
RRP: $59.95
Pub date: February 2008
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