Barry Humphries prepares a toast to his loveable characters, Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson in a triple exposure on one negative. An image from the Casamento retrospective.
A retrospective of the work of award-winning Melbourne newspaper photographer John Casamento will be staged at Photonet Gallery.
Images by the former Sun News Pictorial photographer John Casamento form ‘Out of the Darkroom’, a retrospective of his career which will be staged at Photonet Gallery in Melbourne from November 3 to 23. Casamento says the picture editor of a major newspaper once told him that the adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" was a fallacy. "It depends on what pictures and what words," the editor explained. The editor then told Casamento the craft of news photography also required him to be a journalist, technician, artist and historian.
From age 12 Casamento developed his enthusiasm for photography, which led to him becoming a professional photographer. He found that working for a major metropolitan newspaper resulted in experiences more diverse than anything else he could have imagined. Michael Silver of Photonet Gallery, Fairfield, worked alongside Casamento at Melbourne’s Sun newspaper in the mid-1980s, later employing John’s photographer son, Peter, in his freelance business during the 1990s.
Photonet Gallery is now about to show a major retrospective exhibition of Casamento’s press photography, curated by Peter and Joseph Casamento. A representation of the darkroom Casamento spent so many years in will feature in the show, as well as copies of some of his very many Sun front pages and a selection of his most memorable photography.
'Out of the Darkroom' will open on Sunday, November 3 and run through until Saturday, November 23. Former Sun cartoonist Geoff Hook will formally open the exhibition on Sunday, November 10, from 4-6pm. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm; and Sunday 12 noon to 4pm.
For further details contact Susanne Silver at Photonet Gallery, Ph: (03) 9018 3081, or email: susanne@photonet.com.au
Barry Humphries prepares a toast to his loveable characters, Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson in a triple exposure on one negative during a performance in Melbourne.
Broken twigs scatter as horses clear a brush steeple in a jumps race at Flemington.
Mick Jagger, early in his rock and roll days when he visited Melbourne, photographed by Casamento.
Bound for the war in Vietnam, a soldier is farewelled by his loved one before boarding a plane with other defence force members at Essendon Airport in the 1960s.
Barry Humphries prepares a toast to his loveable characters, Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson in a triple exposure on one negative. An image from the Casamento retrospective.
