Volkswagen in snow, Perisher Valley, day 1, August 1971
1971
David Moore is well-known for his work as an international photojournalist and commercial photographer, especially noted for his widely published, iconic images of Australia. Alongside his commercial work, Moore also maintained a personal practice. A dominant concern of Moore's non-commercial work was the relationship between the still photographic image and the duration of lived experience. This work forms part of a time-lapse triptych that shows a Volkswagon progressively emerging from a mound of melting snow in Perisher Valley, New South Wales. Moore showed this triptych at Brummels Gallery of Photography in 1973.
Gelatin silver prints are black-and-white photographic prints that have been created using papers coated with an emulsion of gelatin and light-sensitive silver salts. After the papers are briefly exposed to light (usually through a negative), a chemical developer renders the latent image as reduced silver, which is then fixed and washed. This technique was first introduced in the 1870s and is still used today. Most twentieth-century black-and-white photographs are gelatin silver prints. They are known for being highly detailed and sharply defined prints with a distinguishable smooth, even image surface.
