MERVYN BISHOP | World Champion Bantam Weight Boxer Lionel Rose At His Press Conference, Mascot Airport, Sydney NSW 1968/2008
40 x 26.5 cm
Silver gelatin photograph
Signed and date lower right and titled dated and signed in pencil verso Illustrated in Bishop, In Dreams: thirty years of photography 1960–1990, p32.
"Boxer Lionel Rose was the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title in boxing, and later the first Indigenous Australian to become Australian of the Year."
Ref: NLA. Item #CL195-41
Courtesy of Josef Lebovic Gallery agent for Merv Bishop.
40 x 26.5 cm
Silver gelatin photograph
Signed and date lower right and titled dated and signed in pencil verso Illustrated in Bishop, In Dreams: thirty years of photography 1960–1990, p32.
"Boxer Lionel Rose was the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title in boxing, and later the first Indigenous Australian to become Australian of the Year."
Ref: NLA. Item #CL195-41
Courtesy of Josef Lebovic Gallery agent for Merv Bishop.
40 x 26.5 cm
Silver gelatin photograph
Signed and date lower right and titled dated and signed in pencil verso Illustrated in Bishop, In Dreams: thirty years of photography 1960–1990, p32.
"Boxer Lionel Rose was the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title in boxing, and later the first Indigenous Australian to become Australian of the Year."
Ref: NLA. Item #CL195-41
Courtesy of Josef Lebovic Gallery agent for Merv Bishop.
