Carol Jerrems

Carol Jerrems
Jerrems photographed by Rennie Ellis at Brummels Gallery in 1975
Born(1949-03-14)14 March 1949
Ivanhoe, Victoria
Died21 February 1980(1980-02-21) (aged 30)
Prahran, Victoria
NationalityAustralian
Known forPhotography

Carol Jerrems (14 March 1949 – 21 February 1980) was an Australian photographer/filmmaker whose work emerged just as her medium was beginning to regain the acceptance as an art form that it had in the Pictorial era, and in which she newly synthesizes complicity performed, documentary and autobiographical image-making of the human subject, as exemplified in her Vale Street.[1][2]

Known for documenting the revolutionary spirit of sub-cultures including that of indigenous Australians, disaffected youth, and the emergent feminist movement of Melbourne in the 1970s, her work has been compared to that of internationally known Americans Larry Clark–of a slightly older generation–and Nan Goldin, as well as fellow Australian William Yang.[3]

Jerrems died at age 30. Her short yet productive seven-year career parallels that of contemporary Francesca Woodman.

  1. ^ "Jerrems, Carol Joyce (1949–1980)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Archived from the original on 16 November 2009.
  2. ^ Peter Wilmoth (17 July 2005). "The '70s stripped bare". The Age. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008.
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