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Jacqueline Mitelman is an Australian portrait photographer.

Early life and education

Jacqueline Mitelman was born in Scotland in 1949, and has since lived in Melbourne and in France for a few years. She studied for a Diploma of Art and Design at Prahran College of Advanced Education 1973-76, where her lecturers were Athol Shmith, Paul Cox, and John Cato.

Career

After graduation Mitelman practiced as a freelance photographer specialising in portraiture for magazines and newspapers,[1] album and book covers, and for theatre and music posters.[2] During her career she has sought out Australia's significant writers, artists and personalities for her subjects, thus creating a valuable pantheon of the country's culture. The National Portrait Gallery holds twenty of her photographs[3] including those of Dorothy Hewett, Helen Garner, Judith Wright, Jack Hibberd,[4] Peter Carey,Michael Leunig, Christina Stead,[5] Brett Whiteley, Germaine Greer, Ruby Hunter, Murray Bail,[6] Alan Marshall, Kylie Tennant, Susan Ryan, Ita Buttrose and Max Dupain.[7] Her depiction of Miss Alesandra, won the Gallery’s National Photographic Portrait prize.[8][9][10] Mitelman says of her approach[11] that;

“taking photographs is a bit like a temporary infatuation, for me, because, I'm not interested in taking awkward pictures of somebody, so it's a bit like, you know that process when you fall in love with somebody.”[12]

Of Mitelman’s portraits of dogs, critic Anna Clabburn wrote;

“These subjects are approached with reverence and deliberation and, like a human portrait, strive towards an inner essence by mapping the creature’s eyes and body language. There’s much to be learnt from Mitelman’s comic yet serious transposition of dogs into human guise. The anthropomorphic quality of her subjects is both inviting and vaguely disturbing…” [13]

Exhibitions

  • 2016: Finalist, Bowness Prize Monash Gallery of Art
  • 2014: Finalist, Pinnacles Gallery Portrait Prize
  • 2013, May: On Cockatoo Island, Mars Gallery
  • 2012: Smith Street Portrait Project, Gertrude Street Projection Festival
  • 2011/12, October-February: Tarra Warra Museum of Art[14][15][16]
  • 2010: Finalist, National Photographic Portrait Prize National Portrait Gallery
  • 2008: Finalist, Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery
  • 2007: Finalist, Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery
  • 2008, April: Some Dogs, MARS Gallery Port Melbourne
  • 2005, April: Mostly Strange, MARS Gallery Port Melbourne
  • 2002, January 3-February 10: Investigations, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park
  • 2002, October 8-25: Photomontage, J-Space Centre for Contemporary Art, Chisholm Institute
  • 1998/9, November-January: Dog Portraiture, Monash Gallery of Art
  • 1995, March 8-June 8: Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian women's art in the National Library collections, National Library of Australia, Canberra, opened by Andrea Stretton, 7 March 1995[17]
  • 1975, October 1-September 6: Wimmin: six wimmin photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, for International Women's Year[17]
  • 1975: Woman 1975, touring exhibition of the Women's Christian Association of Australia, Victoria, for International Women's Year[17]

Awards

  • 2011: National Photographic Portrait Prize National Portrait Gallery
  • 2004: Josephine Ulrick National Photography Prize

Collections

  • National Portrait Gallery[18]
  • National Library of Australia[19]
  • Australia Defence Force Academy Library[20]
  • National Gallery of Victoria[21]
  • State Library of Victoria[22]
  • Museum of Modern Art at Heide[23]
  • Monash Gallery of Art[24]
  • Tweed River Art Gallery[25]

Publications

  • Mitelman, Jacqueline; Horne, Donald, 1921-2005 (1988), Faces of Australia, Lothian, ISBN 978-0-85091-343-9{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Mitelman, Jacqueline; Gaston, Vivien; TarraWarra Museum of Art (2011), Jacqueline Mitelman : facetime, TarraWarra Museum of Art, retrieved 26 January 2020
  • Horn, Michael; Hanover Welfare Services; Stegley Foundation (1995), Women alone ... : stepping forward : a report on homelessness experienced by lone women (1995 ed.), Hanover Welfare Services, ISBN 978-0-9588815-2-4

References

  1. ^ Helen Disney, Gail Bateman, Elizabeth Seddon (1996) 'Healthy Families and Relationships', in Australian Institute of Family Studies, (issuing body.) (1987), Family matters : newsletter of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Australian Institute of Family Studies, ISSN 1030-2646
  2. ^ "Portraits hit sweet spot.(Green Guide)", The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited: 29, 2009-02-12, ISSN 0312-6307
  3. ^ "Jacqueline Mitelman: 'Buddha-nature'". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  4. ^ Hibberd, J. (1995). A conversation with Jack Hibberd.[Interview by Lochner, Juliane.]. Antipodes, 9(2), 131.
  5. ^ Hill, B. (2017). Dark star. Meanjin, 76(4), 134.
  6. ^ Costello, M. (2017). Abu Ben Bail: a creative writer reads Murray Bail’s archived correspondence. Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal, 50(3), 91-105.
  7. ^ "With heads held high.(Features)", The Australian (National, Australia), News Limited: B14, 1999-06-09
  8. ^ "Tip from left field.(Green Guide)", The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited: 21, 2011-07-14, ISSN 0312-6307
  9. ^ Crean, Simon (2011-02-24), National Photgraphic Portrait Prize 2011
  10. ^ O'Riordan, M. Wonders in portrait land:[National Photographic Portrait Prize.]. Photofile, (87), 38.
  11. ^ Waters, A., & Mitelman, J. (2019). Available natural light. Australian Rationalist, The, 113, 25.
  12. ^ "Jacqueline Mitelman: 'Buddha-nature'". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  13. ^ Anna Clabburn, The Age, January 20, 1999
  14. ^ Mitelman, Jacqueline; Gaston, Vivien; TarraWarra Museum of Art (2011), Jacqueline Mitelman : facetime, TarraWarra Museum of Art, retrieved 26 January 2020
  15. ^ "SPACE.(News)", The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited: 15, 2012-02-22, ISSN 0312-6307
  16. ^ "Art directory.(Directory)", Art and Australia, 49 (1), Art and Australia Pty. Ltd: 179(12), 2011-03-22, ISSN 0004-301X
  17. ^ a b c "Jacqueline Mitelman". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved January 26, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ "Jacqueline Mitelman, b. 1952". National Portrait Gallery people. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  19. ^ "Trove search results for 'Jacqueline Mitelman' - Pictures, photos, objects". Trove. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  20. ^ "Jacqueline Mitelman photograph collection". Academy Library, UNSW Canberra Special Collection MSS 249. Retrieved 2020-01-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ "Jacqueline MITELMAN | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  22. ^ "Jacqueline Mitelman portraits in the collection of the State Library of Victoria". State Library of Victoria.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  23. ^ "Portraits by Jacqueline Mitelman in the Heide collection". Heide Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-01-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  24. ^ "Jacqueline Mitelman in the MGA collection". Monash Gallery of Art. Retrieved 2020-01-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  25. ^ "Collections". Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
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