Laurie Wilson

by Laurie Wilson (Illustrator)

LAURIE WILSON by Jennie Boddington. Published by the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. 1982. 12.00x0.75x11.25. Unpaginated. Gray textured cloth hardcover with photographic dust jacket in overall Very Good Collectible condition. Gray and white dust jacket is Good with tears atop spine and chips on bottom, plus clear tape repair to rear interior dj jacket spine top. Some small dark spots, streaks on front cover as well as top/bottom tears to front fold of dust cover (see photos for details). Cloth hardcover is square and tightly bound. All signatures intact, and all interior pages clean and unmarked. Lawrence George Wilson "Laurie" (1920-1980) was an internationally recognized Australian photographer who never journeyed farther than Victoria, the province in which he was born and lived. Mostly self-taught, and his entire life in delicate health, he slowly earned recognition late in his short existence. That an ordinary photographer should in his last years unleash such an outpouring of the imagination was remarkable. Photographs of subtle delicacy and passion gave way to imagery ever more enigmatic as death approached. Lyric harmony of mist and pale moon yielded to harsh tonalities of ocean tumult and stark wasteland. There emerged finally a sense of confrontation and doom. The 101 black & white photographs within these pages express the startling dimensions of this gifted artist. Long out-of-print, scarce, collectible.

120 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982