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Photo by Roger Scott
Carol Jerrems's gritty, poetic and elusive images show people trying to find a new way of life and action in the 1970s. Her images have come to define a decade in Australia's history.
...the first contemporary Australian woman photographer to have work acquired by museums...
(https://nga.gov.au/Jerrems/)
Carol Joyce Jerrems (14 March 1949 –21 Feb. 1980); Australian photographer/filmmaker whose work emerged just as her medium was beginning to regain the acceptance as an art form that it had in the Pictorial era, and in which she newly synthesizes complicity performed, documentary and autobiographical image-making of the human subject, as exemplified in her Vale Street.
Known for documenting the revolutionary spirit of sub-cultures including that of indigenous Australians, disaffected youth, and the emergent feminist movement of Melbourne in the 1970s, her work has been compared to that of internationally known Americans Larry Clark–of a slightly older generation–and Nan Goldin, as well as fellow Australian William Yang.
Jerrems died at 30. Her short yet productive 7-year career parallels that of contemporary Francesca Woodman.
...Jerrems' life and work is partly described in the documentary Girl in a Mirror (2005) and her work is achieving increasing recognition through exhibitions and screenings of her films.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Jerrems)
...[she declared] that she was 'an artist whose tool of expression is the camera'.
...She used a non-exploitative approach, based on the consent of her subjects. For Jerrems, photography had a crucial social role: 'the society is sick and I must help change it'.
...For some years Jerrems practised yoga, which she also taught....
In 1979 she fell ill with Budd-Chiari syndrome. She died on 21 February 1980 at Prahran and was cremated. Her archive of photographs was donated to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
(http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jerrems-carol-joyce-10625) undefined