Mark and Flappers

Carol Jerrems
Australia
1949 – 1980

Mark and Flappers
1975
gelatin-silver photograph
Place made
Melbourne
Medium
gelatin-silver photograph
Dimensions
15.1 x 22.4 cm (image)
Credit line
Maurice A. Clarke Bequest Fund 2013
Accession number
20134Ph82
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated.
Media category
Photograph
Collection area
Australian photographs
Copyright
© Estate of Carol Jerrems
Image credit
Photo: AGSA

  • WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016

     

    Jerrems was seemingly curious about the behaviour and attitudes of a group of tough boys she was teaching at Heidelberg Technical School. Despite the inherent danger to herself, she spent time with them during out-of-school hours and they allowed her to photograph them. Her images explore their anti-social behaviour and sexual bravado, as well as their underlying youthful vulnerability.

     

    Mark Lean (right) appears in many photographs (including Vale Street) and was a favourite subject for Carol. She wrote at the time:

    [Mark] I know well, having taught him drawing and photography last year … now he’s in form 4, fifteen years old, tattooed, and with self-pierced ears and very short hair.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

     

  • Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016