[Mandawuy Yunupingu and Yothu Yindi performing at Sydney Opera House, 1992] [picture] / Serge Thomann
- Bib ID:
- 663537
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Thomann, Serge
- Description:
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- [1992]
- 1 photograph : col. ; 33.8 x 49.7 cm.
- Summary:
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This photograph was taken at the Sydney Opera House at the AFI Awards in 1992.
- Biography/History:
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"Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian of the year 1992 ... gained a Bachelor of Education in 1987 and became the first Aboriginal principal in Australia at Yirrkala school in 1990. There he developed a curriculum which incorporated both white and Aboriginal knowledge traditions. He founded the internationally acclaimed band Yothu Yindi in 1986, a vehicle for important political messages about Aboriginal life, land rights and education."-- Australians of the Year exhibition catalogue.
- Notes:
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- Inscription: signed by photographer in lower right corner.
- Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisition file 204/21/00045.
- Condition: good.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Musicians
- Other authors/contributors:
- Yunupingu, Mandawuy, 1956-2013
- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: Australians of the Year, National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, 1996.
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1992
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