Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative An impression of this work

An impression of this work was exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria's 2018 exhibition Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions curated by Sasha Grishin

The etching is a pure celebration of parenthood and encapsulation of childlike innocence

making this work a kind of peripheral self-portrait

‘The Angelus’ is a deeply evocative image

The dunes and pyramids in the background are a reference the Suez Canal which many of the immigrants had to cross on their way to Australia prior to the wide-spread popularity and affordability of air travel

Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative An impression of this workThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this