LIFE ON THE HOMEFRONT EXHIBITION COMES TO DUBBO
Step back in time with the latest exhibition at the Western Plains Cultural Centre that depicts life at home in a world war.
The Capturing the Homefront exhibition pulls back the curtains and shines a light on life at home in World War II as captured by famous American photojournalist Dorothea Lange and Australian photographers Samuel Hood, Edward Cranstone, Hedley Keith Cullen and Jim Fitzpatrick.
“Part of this exhibition features never before seen images from photo-documentarian Dorothea Lange as well as other World War II photographers,” Dubbo Regional Council’s Curator, Kent Buchanan said.
Capturing the Homefront features 49 stunning framed photographs reproduced from national and international collections that reveal the remarkable parallels between Australia and USA during the Pacific war including industry, family life, the role of women and Japanese internment.
“The photographs tell a story of ordinary people, soldiers and places captured in time to express the significant and monumental time in history.”
“It was a time well before digital photography and the skill of photographers to document a sense of time and place depicting the reality of life at home in a world war.”
“The exhibition is on now at the Western Plains Cultural Centre and will be on display until mid-November,” Mr Buchanan said.
The images in the exhibition range from candid records that capture the intimacy of unplanned encounters between the photographer and the subject, to modern techniques used to portray industry, to deliberately composed scenes of soft propaganda.
The Western Plains Cultural Centre is open daily and currently is featuring a number of exhibitions including the Rauschenberg and Johns: Significant Others, Ornibiography by Jodi Cramond, Nature is not a place to visit. It is Home by Leila Jeffreys and A Woman’s Place in addition to Capturing the Homefront.
The Capturing the Homefront exhibition is produced by the Australian National Maritime Museum and supported by the USA Bicentennial Gift Fund.
For more information visit www.westernplainsculturalcentre.org.
Last Edited: 21 Aug 2024