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The Circus Diaries is a wonderful oral history and photographic project documenting traditional Australian circus life from the 1920's to the present. Over the past three years I have travelled through much of Australia interviewing and photographing circus elders and families, and living with traditional circuses.

The Circus Diaries is a PhD project in partnership with The Australian Centre of Melbourne University and the Performing Arts Collection of the Arts Centre, Victoria.The Circus Diaries exhibition opened at the George Adams Gallery of the Arts Centre, 100 St. Kilda Rd, Melbourne, on May 18th, and ran till July 15th, 2007. The exhibition was an outcome from my Australian Circus Oral History PhD research and features photographs by Cal MacKinnon. To see some of Cal's contemporary images from The Circus Diaries exhibition, please click on the link to her website on the right.

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Friday, May 18, 2007

The Circus Diairies Exhibition

One of the many walls of circus images at the Arts Centre Victoria.




A display case with memorabilia, including Fanny Espinosa's lion taming costume (Ashton's Circus 1970s), and a photo of Joe and Jean Perry (Sole Bros Circus 1950s).



The Circus Diaries slideshow and images.






Image of Topsy Hutchins, who was given away to Sole's Circus in approximately 1920 as a two year old child. She went on to become an aerialist and contortionist. Behind her the image of Lorraine Maynard of Perry Bros Circus.

4 comments:

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June 5, 2007 at 6:22 PM
Anonymous said...

I loved the exhibition - well done.

June 5, 2007 at 6:33 PM
Anonymous said...

Well done - what a fantastic exhibition and I think also labour of love. I wish you well for it.

June 5, 2007 at 6:44 PM
Anonymous said...

Saw the exhibition on Sunday and thought it was great! Bet you've had a fun time running around Australia, and definitely more interesting than
spending PhD years locked in a library. Best wishes for its future success.

June 6, 2007 at 3:44 AM

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