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Latitude
-34.9275
Longitude
138.6
Start Date
1953-01-01
End Date
1953-01-01

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ID
tb9c8e

Extended Data

DAAO URL
https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alan-cruickshank
Birth Place
Adelaide, SA, Australia
Biography
Photographic manipulator, was born in Adelaide; works SA and does digital cibachrome prints. In 1997 he put 19th century European male heads on Lindt 's Aboriginal studio portraits in the exhibition “Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial”, having previously in his more light-hearted ARCANUM (1992) and THE ARCANUM MUSEUM (1995-96) changed historical European photographs by adding Aboriginal faces here and there, possibly to suggest an Aboriginal authority equal to a European one in the early years of European settlement. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1999 Last updated: 2011
Born
b. 1953
Summary
Photographic manipulator, was born in Adelaide, SA. Cruickshank's work has referenced early European photographers such as John William Lindt. His 1997 exhibition "Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial" involved superimposing European faces onto Lindt's historical photographs of Indigenous Tasmanians. He has also been known to alter early European photographs by adding Aboriginal faces, arguably in
Gender
Male
Died
None listed
Age at death
None listed