The National Portrait Gallery's exhibition of Carol Jerrems' portrait photography showcases her talent for capturing the essence of her subjects.
Carol Jerrems died young, aged 30, and that is the least important aspect of her art. The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition of her portrait photography is a revelation – of an age, of the foresight of the National Gallery of Australia in collecting her full archive, and of what can be achieved with a Pentax Spotmatic single reflex camera loaded with black-and-white film.
One of the joys of the exhibition is that it includes some of Jerrems’ early work made for assessment at Prahran College in Melbourne where she was taught by the film-maker Paul Cox. Three portfolios, each the final submission for that year’s course, show how her eye developed from her first series of captured images from the Melbourne Show, to her final year photo essay.A self-portrait taken in 1979, the year before she died aged 30 of a rare liver disease.She once said, “the moment preserved is an exchange”. Jerrems’ ability to capture that moment, connecting with her subjects while fearlessly examining their humanity, led to her first commission. , with text by Virginia Fraser, published in 1974, was funded by the Whitlam government’s recently established Australia Council. The publisher was Outback Press, an experimental venture by the young Morry Schwartz. His photograph is in the exhibition, positioned in isolation, cast as a small, wistful figure against a blank wall.include the already famous Yvonne Goolagong, the soon-to-be-famous Anne Summers, and the feminist poet Kate Jennings. But the first image is of a child, Caroline Slade. The contact sheet, the record of the day when the photograph was taken, shows that she took several photographs of children happily playing. But the image selected by Jerrems is of a solemn little girl whose floral-patterned dress is almost, but not quite, a part of the patterned wallpaper background. As a result, the viewer focuses on the child’s face, as she contemplates the world
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