Bendigo Art Gallery 전시회, Australian Women’s Weekly의 렌즈를 통해 삶을 기념하다

벤디고의 유명한 아트 갤러리 벽에는 호주에서 가장 영향력 있는 간행물 중 하나의 표지에 묘사된 호주 문화와 역사의 스냅샷이 장식되어 있습니다.

갤러리의 최신 전시회인 The Australian Women’s Weekly: 90 Years of an Australian Icon은 이정표를 기념하고 수십 년 동안 독자들이 알고 있는 삶을 보여줍니다.

큐레이터 로렌 엘리스(Lauren Ellis)는 “호주 여성 주간지의 도달 범위는 정말 대단합니다.

“한 역사가는 역사상 한 시점에 호주인 4명 중 1명이 신문을 읽었다고 추정합니다.”

전 편집자 Deborah Thomas는 Weekly가 초기에 뉴스, 왕족, 음식 및 패션에 관한 모든 것과 컬러 사진을 다루면서 이름을 날렸다고 말했습니다.

“사람들은 집에서, 국가에서, 그리고 특히 영국에서 무슨 일이 일어나고 있는지 실제로 알아보기 위해 그것을 찾았습니다.”라고 그녀는 말했습니다.

전시회에 무엇이 있습니까?
전시장을 찾은 관람객들은 처음부터 패션에 흠뻑 빠져 있다.

덴마크의 메리 왕세자비를 비롯한 유명 인사와 왕족이 입는 가운이 있습니다.

갤러리를 더 자세히 살펴보면 1970년대의 크로셰 웨딩 드레스를 포함하여 잡지의 패턴을 사용하여 독자들이 복제할 수 있었던 의상을 찾을 수 있습니다.

당시 Weekly는 “올해 가장 아름다운 웨딩 드레스”로 편물 가운을 청구했습니다.

요리책과 공예품이 있으며 방 전체가 아마도 가장 잘 알려진 Women’s Weekly 간행물인 상징적인 어린이 생일 케이크 책에 전념합니다.

며칠 만에 커뮤니티에서 3,000장의 사진이 독자의 Women’s Weekly 생일 케이크 걸작 갤러리로 보내졌습니다.

Ellis는 “우리는 약 1,000장의 사진을 모아 생일 축하 추억을 담은 정말 아름다운 스냅샷을 만들 수 있었습니다.”라고 말했습니다.

‘비범한 일을 하는 여성들’
잡지 뒤에는 호주 최초의 여성 전쟁 특파원 두 명인 Dorothy Drain과 Adele ‘Tilly’ Shelton-Smith를 포함하여 여성들이 흔적을 남기고 있습니다.

전시회에는 Drain의 언론 출입증과 Women’s Weekly의 설립자인 Frank Packer 경의 편지를 포함하여 그들의 소지품 중 일부가 포함되어 있습니다.

Drain의 보도는 그녀를 말라야, 한국, 베트남을 포함한 전장으로 데려갔습니다.

그녀의 조카인 전 고등법원 판사 케네스 헤인은 드레인이 폭탄 투하 1년 이내에 히로시마의 공포를 직접 보았다고 말했다.

Hayne은 “그녀는 자신의 시대에 비범한 일을 하고 있었지만 어느 시대에나 비범한 일을 했던 여성 그룹의 일원이었습니다.”라고 말했습니다.

Drain은 1975년에 은퇴하기 전에 Weekly의 편집자가 되었습니다.

“The Weekly는 가정에서 대부분의 사람들이 읽을 것이며 그들이 뉴스를 수집하는 방법이 될 것입니다.”라고 Hayne은 말했습니다.

그의 이모는 항상 독자들이 그녀가 다루고 있는 문제에 대해 배우고 생각하도록 자극하기를 원했습니다.

Hayne은 “그녀에게는 Weekly가 지적 투지와 내용을 담고 있다는 것이 매우 중요했습니다. 그녀는 그것에 대해 자랑스러워했습니다.”라고 말했습니다.

그는 Drain이 글로벌 분쟁을 취재한 그녀의 시간에 대해 그에게 말했을 때의 대화를 이야기했습니다.

“미국인들은 우리를 어떻게 해야할지 몰랐어요.” 그녀가 그에게 말했다.

“그들은 여자가 있다는 사실에 대처할 수 없었습니다.”

미래를 바라보다
Drain을 포함하여 매거진을 만드는 데 도움을 준 여성들을 위한 전시회의 일부는 Weekly의 현재 편집자 Nicole Byers가 가장 보고 싶어했던 전시회였습니다.

많은 호주의 하드카피 잡지가 디지털 세계의 압력으로 인해 뉴스 에이전시 선반에서 사라졌습니다.

그러나 Ms Byers는 Weekly가 살아남을 것이라고 믿습니다.

“현재 미디어에 많은 디지털 변환이 일어나고 있습니다.”라고 그녀는 말했습니다.

“오랫동안 존재해 온 콘텐츠와 지속되는 브랜드를 완전히 새로운 잠재 고객에게 제공할 수 있는 기회를 정말 제공합니다.”

전시는 5월 27일 개막해 8월 27일까지 이어진다.

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Bendigo Art Gallery exhibition celebrates life through the lens of the Australian Women’s Weekly

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/ By Emma D’Agostino and Sarah Lawrence

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Adorning the walls of Bendigo’s renowned art gallery are snapshots of Australian culture and history, as depicted by the covers of one of the country’s most influential publications.

Key points:

The Australian Women’s Weekly celebrates 90 years this year
The Bendigo Art Gallery is marking the milestone with an exhibition
Fashion, cookbooks, and tales of the times are all on display, including a room devoted to the children’s birthday cake book

The gallery’s latest exhibition, The Australian Women’s Weekly: 90 Years of an Australian Icon, celebrates a milestone and showcases life as its readers have known it throughout the decades.

“The reach of the Australian Women’s Weekly is really extraordinary,” said curator Lauren Ellis.

“One historian estimates that at one point in history, 1 in 4 Australians read the paper.”

A collage of covers of the Australian Women's Weekly. — The Australian Women’s Weekly celebrates its 90th birthday this year.(ABC Central Victoria: Emma D’Agostino)

Former editor Deborah Thomas said the Weekly made a name for itself in its early days with its coverage of all things news, royals, food and fashion — and its coloured photographs.

“People turned to it to really find out what was happening at home, in the country, and also particularly in the UK,” she said.

Australian Women's Weekly — The Weekly was valued in its early years for its news coverage, recipes and fashion — and its colour pictures.(Supplied: Bendigo Art Gallery)

What’s in the exhibition?

From the outset, visitors to the exhibition are immersed in fashion.

There are gowns worn by celebrities and royalty, including Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.

Delve further into the gallery, and you’ll find garments readers were able to replicate using patterns from the magazine, including a crochet wedding dress from the 1970s.

At the time, the Weekly billed crocheted gown as “the year’s most beautiful wedding dress”.

A crochet wedding dress on display on a mannequin next to a clipping from a magazine. — The pattern for this crochet wedding dress was included in a 1975 edition of the Weekly. (ABC Central Victoria: Emma D’Agostino)

There are cookbooks and crafts, with an entire room devoted to perhaps the best-known of the Women’s Weekly publications: The iconic children’s birthday cake book.

Within days, a community call-out saw 3,000 photographs sent to the gallery of readers’ Women’s Weekly birthday cake masterpieces.

“We’ve been able to pull together about 1,000 of those pictures to create a really beautiful snapshot of all those happy birthday memories,” Ms Ellis said.

A wall of pictures centred around the cover of a children's birthday cake book. — The gallery received thousands of pictures of people’s Women’s Weekly birthday cakes.(ABC Central Victoria: Emma D’Agostino)

‘Women doing extraordinary things’

Behind the magazine, women have been blazing a trail, including two of Australia’s first female war correspondents, Dorothy Drain and Adele ‘Tilly’ Shelton-Smith.

Included in the exhibition are some of their belongings, including Drain’s press pass and a letter from the Women’s Weekly’s founder, Sir Frank Packer.

Two women sitting on a rock in a photograph. — Australian Women’s Weekly war correspondents Dorothy Drain and Adele Shelton-Smith, photographed in 1940.(Supplied: Bendigo Art Gallery)

Drain’s reporting took her to theatres of war, including Malaya, Korea and Vietnam.

Her nephew, former High Court justice Kenneth Hayne, said Drain saw firsthand the horrors of Hiroshima within a year of the bomb dropping.

“She was part of a group of women who were doing extraordinary things for their time, but who were doing extraordinary things for any time,” Mr Hayne said.

A book with a photo of a woman and a mix of typed and handwritten content. — Issued in 1940, war correspondent Dorothy Drain’s press permit is included in the exhibition.(ABC Central Victoria: Emma D’Agostino)

Drain went on to become the editor of the Weekly, before she retired in 1975.

“The Weekly would be read by most in the household and would be the way in which they would gather their news,” Mr Hayne said.

His aunt always wanted to provoke readers to learn and think about the issues she was covering.

“For her, it was very important that the Weekly had that intellectual grit and content in it … of that, she was proud,” Mr Hayne said.

A typed letter against a white background. — A 1959 letter from magazine founder Sir Frank Packer to Dorothy Drain discusses an upcoming issue of the Weekly.(ABC Central Victoria: Emma D’Agostino)

He recounted a conversation when Drain spoke to him about her time covering global conflicts.

“The Americans didn’t know what to do with us, dear,” she told him.

“They couldn’t cope with the fact they had a woman.”

Looking to the future

The parts of the exhibition devoted to the women who helped build the magazine, including Drain, were the exhibits the Weekly’s current editor Nicole Byers was most excited to see.

Many of Australia’s hard-copy magazines have disappeared from newsagency shelves, folding under the pressures of a digital world.

But Ms Byers believes the Weekly will live on.

A sweater next to a cover of the Women's Weekly. — A knitted jumper (front) made from a 1982 Women’s Weekly pattern. It was inspired by Jenny Kee’s Blinky Di sweater worn by Princess Diana.(ABC Central Victoria: Emma D’Agostino)

“There’s a lot of digital transformation that’s happening to media now,” she said.

“It really gives us the opportunity to bring the content that has been around for such a long time, and the brand that’s endured, to a whole new audience.”

The exhibition opens on May 27 and will run until August 27.

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