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Art + Soul: Bitter and Sweet – Mervyn Bishop
Title:
Art + Soul: Bitter and Sweet – Mervyn Bishop
NFSA ID
1484434
Year
2009
Courtesy
Hibiscus Films
In this excerpt from Art + Soul Episode 3: Bitter and Sweet, Mervyn Bishop talks about his most famous photograph – Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically pouring sand into the hand of traditional landowner Vincent Lingiari in 1975.
The episode is narrated by Hetti Perkins and was directed by Warwick Thornton.
Mervyn Bishop: The Exhibition was on display at the NFSA in Canberra from 5 March to 4 October 2021.
Producers
Jo-Anne McGowan, Bridget Ikin
Director
Warwick Thornton
Writer and narrator
Hetti Perkins
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.