Marcus Bunyan black & white archive 1991-1997

After undertaking an Issues in Art Conservation subject for my Master of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne I have become more aware of the fragility of my black and white fibre-based prints and negatives. I have therefore decided to scan negatives made during the years 1991-1997 to preserve them in the form of an online archive as a process of active memory, so that the images are not lost forever. The medium format negatives were taken by my trusty Mamiya RZ67. I started taking these photographs in the first year of my Bachelor of Arts at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and continued through my Master of Arts until I took up colour and digital photography in 1998. Previsualisation was strong – the negatives and subsequent prints are usually full frame. I used Kodak T-Max 400 film, developing my own negatives with T-Max developer using a unique processing technique (timing and agitation). I printed all my own photographs on fibre-based silver gelatin paper, usually the beautiful warm-toned Agfa Portriga or the cool-toned Kodak Polymax using a variety of paper developers such as Amidol and ANSCO 120. Early influences were master photographers such as Eugene Atget, Minor White, Paul Strand and Alfred Stieglitz. Of great help was the mentorship of my friend, the Australian photographer Ian Lobb. These photographs were images of my life and imagination at the time of their making, the ideas I was thinking about and the people that surrounded me. As such they form part of life – of Melbourne, of Australia and of humanity in general. The preservation of such moments in time are vital to the continuing enrichment of culture.

Dr Marcus Bunyan 2013

All images © Marcus Bunyan.

Photographs are available from all these series for purchase. As a guide, a vintage 8″ x 10″ silver gelatin print costs $700 plus tracked and insured shipping. For more information please see my Store web page.

 

 

1995-1996

Sleep/Wound

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1995-1996

Mask

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1994-1996

Padlocks/People

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1994-1996

Orphans and small groups Part 1

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1994-1996

Orphans and small groups Part 2

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1994-1995

Dogs, chickens, cattle

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1994-1995

Horses, sheep

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1994

Études

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1994

The Songs of Eternity

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1994

Immersion

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1994

Ignudi

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1994

South Yarra and surrounds

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1993

England

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1993

England

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1992-1994

Circumnagivation

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1992-1994

Within

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1991-1992

Objects, cars and places

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1991-1992

Self-portraits and nudes

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1991-1992

Portraits, South Yarra, Melbourne

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1991

At Newport series

This series of photographs was taken in Melbourne at the old Victorian Railway’s Newport Workshops and formed the second part of my first solo exhibition, Of Myth, Magic and Music held in 1991. Please click on the photographs to go to the posting for this series

 

1991

The Regent Theatre series

The photographs of the dilapidated Regent Theatre in Collins Street, Melbourne were taken with the permission of the National Trust after the theatre had been closed for 21 years on an open day when the theatre was open to the public. The series formed part of my first solo exhibition Of Magic, Music and Myth held in 1991 at a hairdressing salon in High Street, Prahran, Melbourne. Please click on the photographs to go to the posting for this series