Migrants arriving in Sydney
1966
- Medium
- gelatin silver photograph
- Measurements
- 26.7 × 40.4 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in fibre-tipped pen l.r.: David Moore
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.c.: European migrants arriving in Sydney - 1966 - Accession Number
- PH155-1991
- Department
- Australian Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1991
© Estate of David Moore
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Daryl and Anne Whinney - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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David Moore was Australia’s pre-eminent photojournalist of the 1960s. His work was regularly seen in leading local and international magazines. Moore’s Migrants arriving in Sydney, was commissioned and published by National Geographic in 1966. This now iconic image shows the climactic moment when a ship carrying migrants to Australia docks at Sydney harbour. The tightly framed photograph reveals a range of emotions on the faces of a group of people about to disembark and begin a new life. “We must do more than record the sensational, the bizarre, and the tragic. The lens of the camera must probe, with absolute sincerity, deep into the lives of ordinary men and women and show how we work and play.”
David Moore, 1953
