Perhaps next year [picture] / Graham S. Burstow
- Bib ID:
- 3279489
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Burstow, Graham S
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1986
- 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; 32.5 x 43.0 cm.
- Summary:
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"Beauty contests were an important and popular annual activity on many beaches of the Queensland Gold Coast. Large crowds gathered and the contestants generally took the competition very seriously. After in excess of 40 years the contest has virtually ceased to exist as an outdoor activity and has been replaced by a few highly organised indoor quests. The contests were the world of the single young ladies, aged mostly between 16 and 25 years. In the early 1990s, a junior section was added. However, it could be noticed in the last few years that some of the contestants were mothers as you would see friends holding babies while the contest was staged. The contestants would just arrive on the day and you could see from their deportment that some professionalism was being introduced. The winners from each beach contest would take part in a final contest. A few professional photographers were there each year photographing for the newspapers. I found that as well as the high impact viewpoint from the front, there was some activity behind the temporary stage as other members of the family were often there to lend moral support. This provided a more sensitive subject. Girls from the younger age group were also there, watching and learning... In the early years, the contests were more casual. In some contests, the contestants would parade along a platform supported on trestles. If the platform sagged under their weight, lifesavers would arch their back under the platform to serve as extra trestles."--Graham S. Burstow.
- Notes:
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- Title from reproduction in: Touch me.
- Location of beauty contest is Coolangatta.--Information provided by photographer.
- Signed and dated by photographer on border below image.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136976694
- Published in: Touch me / photographs by Graham S. Burstow. Toowoomba, Qld. : Top Shelf Publications, 1998. No. 101, p. 85.
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