Guide to the Joyce Evans archive, 1946-2017

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Summary

Collection number:
PIC/20965
Extent:
71561 items and (96 MS boxes + 3 large folio boxes + 10128 120mm negatives (B&W + colour) + 52339 35mm negatives (B&W + colour) + 3209 negatives, various sizes (B&W + colour) + 31 audio cassettes + 2 audio CDs + 1 VHS + 417 photographs (B&W) + 2383 photographs (colour) + 983 colour polaroid photographs + 2068 contact sheets)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as 'Joyce Evans archive, National Library of Australia, PIC/20965, [series/file/item number(s)]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Permission required for research. Not for loan.
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice:

Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this collection may contain names, recordings and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions within these works which reflect the author's attitude, or that of the period in which the works were created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.

Background

Content Summary:

The collection includes business notes, teaching materials, correspondence, exhibition ephemera and planning notes, valuations, oral histories, journals, financial records, and photographic material.

The photographic material includes Evan's photographic essays, private commissions, landscapes, travel, portraits, student unionist activities and social activities. Locations include Dandenongs and Mout Martha regions of outer Melbourne, central desert outback Australia including Lake Mungo, Oodlawirra, Menindee and Oodnadatta, along the Hume Highway, rural South of France and the old Jewish cemetery in Prague.

Her portraiture work includes Marianne Baillieu; Barbara Blackman; Baron Avid von Blumenthal; Tim Burstall; Dur-e Dara; Robert Dessaix; Germaine Greer; Elena Kats-Chernin; Joan Kerr; Ellen Koshland; David Malouf; Dame Elisabeth Murdoch; Lin Onus; Jill Reichstein.

Biographical / Historical:

Joyce Evans (1929-2019), Australian photographer, lecturer and gallery owner. Evans worked on both landscape and portraiture photography.

In 1976 Evans opened the Church Street Photographic Centre, Australia's first commercial gallery for photography. She exhibited works by Frank Hurley, Bill Henson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Max Dupain, Imogen Cunningham, Trevor Kenyon, Mark Strizic, Fiona Hall, Robert Ashton, Robert Besanko, John Cato, David Moore, Paul Cox and her won works.

Evans taught the history of photography at Melbourne RMIT and later helped to establish the course on the history of photography at Melbourne University. She later documented country towns and events for the National Library of Australia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Joyce Evans and her estate 2014-2019.

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7858754).
Conditions Governing Use:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as 'Joyce Evans archive, National Library of Australia, PIC/20965, [series/file/item number(s)]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Contact:
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