Frank Cork Photographic Exhibition

It's a pictorial record of South Australia many would remember.Not the pomp and circumstances of major State occasions but snippets of everyday lives lived by everyday people. Frank Cork was an amateur photographer who took his camera everywhere, but his particular passion was for the bush.

His lens captured the essence of 50's and 60's life in South Australia. There's an innocence to his work - whether it's the swagger of country kids on a big day out.. or the coyness of adolescence. Some on his subjects evoke the imagery of Steinbeck's Oklohoma of the 1930's rather than Yorke Peninsula in the 50's.

Though he worked in Adelaide - as a freelance journalist, commercial artists and finally as an importer of fine art - Frank Cork loved nothing better than heading beyond the city. His work was entered in competitions from around Australia - from Murray Bridge to Muswellbrook - and overseas.

He attracted numerous awards - with many of his photographs capturing unique moments in South Australian life.

Frank Cork died six years ago - yet his work lives on as a record of the way we were. The exhibition "Through the Eyes of Frank Cork" is on display at the State Library. Soon many of these images will be digitised and added to the 47,000 historical images which are now on the State Library's database.

The Exhibition "Through the Eyes of Frank Cork" at the State Library Exhibition Space ends on May 2nd 1999 and you can visit the web site at www.slsa.sa.gov.au