Laurence Craddock Le Guay RAAF (1916 - 1990)

Born 25 Dec 1916 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia

Died 2 Feb 1990 at age 73 in Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

• Name LE GUAY, LAWRENCE CRADDOCK

Service Royal Australian Air Force Service Number 34119 Date of Birth 25 Dec 1916 Place of Birth SYDNEY, NSW Date of Enlistment 09 Oct 1940 Place of Enlistment SYDNEY, NSW Next of Kin LE GUAY, C Date of Discharge 08 Jan 1946 Rank Flying Officer Posting at Discharge OVERSEAS HEADQUARTERS LONDON Prisoner of War No Honours None for display

• Le Guay enlisted with the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940, serving as a photographer in the Mediterranean (1941–43) and the Middle East (1943–45). Demobilised in Sydney in January 1946, he accompanied artist Robert Emerson Curtis[9] as photographer on the Australian Geographical Society's tour of Northern Australia,[10][11][12] and joined other expeditions, to New Guinea, and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition.[13][14] One photograph he shot in New Guinea[15] was included by Edward Steichen in The Family of Man exhibition in New York in 1955, which toured the world to reach the largest audience of any photographic exhibition since. He, and David Moore, were the only Australian photographers whose work was included in the exhibition.[25]

Le Guay founded Contemporary Photography, the first Australian photographic magazine not published by a photo supply firm,[14] the first issue of which appeared in December 1946.[10] Through it he promoted modernism, abstraction and documentary approaches as an antidote to the Pictorialist style which still predominated in Australia,[26] and which he began to react against during his membership (1940–1953) of the increasingly conservative Sydney Camera Circle.[27] He also taught photography.

Sources

• *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Le_Guay

• https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/le-guay-laurence-craddock-14150

• https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/179.1979/

• https://www.siep.org.au/General/CCG_Laurence%20Le%20Guay.html