Alfred Gregory - A Retrospective

July 14 to August 11, 2005

One of the twentieth century’s pre-eminent photographers, Alfred Gregory a climbing member of the 1953 team in support of the Hillary and Tenzing’s ascent of Mount Everest - will feature in a Kodak sponsored retrospective  of his life’s work at Lab X Gallery in St. Kilda. Now residing near Melbourne the sprightly 92 year old, known to his friends as ‘Greg’ has hand selected the most iconic prints from a personal archive (which numbers in the tens of thousands) for this limited edition reprinting.

All images are limited edition prints available for sale from Lab X, for more information contact Justine on 03 9534 8838

To view exhibition catalogue and images click here

Click here to view Media Documents for this exhibition.

 

November 2007

Alfred Gregory Exhibition and Book Launch

Alfred GREGORY Photographs from Everest to Africa
Monash Gallery of Art
02 NOVEMBER to 24 FEBRUARY, 2008

6.30PM 14 NOVEMBER 2007

BOOK LAUNCH & EXHIBITION OPENING
By special guest Lincoln Hall

On June 2nd, 1953 the world heard that Mt Everest had finally been conquered. It was a British-led team that made it to the summit of the world's highest mountain, and images of the triumphant Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were flashed around the world.

Those pictures were taken by Alfred "Greg" Gregory, the expedition's official stills photographer, and constitute part of a remarkable exhibition Alfred Gregory: Photographs from Everest to Africa at Monash Gallery of Art.

Including more than 50 photographs, with significant images from the Monash Gallery of Art Collection, this exhibition spans a lifetime of photography practice and travel to some of the world’s great wilderness areas.

This exhibition coincides with the launch of the book, Alfred Gregory: Photographs from Everest to Africa. In this stunning book, more than 100 images from Alfred Gregory’s lifetime of photography are bought together for the first time. This Penguin Lantern publication is available from Monash Gallery of Art Bookshop. Signed copies will be available on the night.

Featuring iconic images of the 1953 Everest expedition, this exhibition survey’s Gregory’s work over a 50 year period, with photographs that take us from the English seaside town of Blackpool to the Cordillera ranges in Peru, and remote tribal people in Africa.

Public Programs
Monday 19 November - Friends of MGA, Morning Coffee
Alfred Gregory will speak about the exhibition Alfred Gregory: Photographs from Everest to Africa

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ALFRED GREGORY
Photographs from Everest to Africa

Press Release

    

 

       Lantern … rrp $100.00

     

In 1953 Alfred Gregory was chief photographer with the triumphant British team that took Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the summit of Everest. There he took spectacular photographs that record not only the human struggle to conquer the Himalaya but also the once-pristine beauty of the world's highest mountain.

In the years that followed, Alfred Gregory travelled the world, leading mountaineering expeditions and recording cultures and landscapes that were then largely unknown to Westerners. He also captured the character, excitement and fading innocence of his hometown, Blackpool. His keen eye and sharp intelligence created pictures that portray all the majesty of the world's greatest wildernesses and that capture those fleeting moments when ordinary people, objects and places become extraordinary.

In this stunning book, more than one hundred remarkable images from Alfred Gregory's lifetime of photography are brought together for the first time.

Alfred Gregory FBIPP, Hon FRPS is a climber, explorer and professional photographer.  As stills photographer on the 1953 British expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest, he reached 8500 metres in support of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.  Born in the United Kingdom in 1913, Alfred Gregory was educated at Blackpool Grammar School.  During World War II he was an officer in the Black Watch and served in North Africa and Italy. Before the war he climbed extensively in the Lake District, Scotland and the Alps. During the 1950s he led several climbing expeditions of his own – to Rolwaling, the Gauri Shankar Massif, Ama Dablam, Distaghil Sar, Karakoram and Cordillera Blanca in Peru. For twenty years he worked freelance for Kodak UK, lecturing on photography and presenting his pictures to large audiences throughout Britain and Europe. His work has been exhibited in Britain, France, Belgium, America, Africa, Poland and Australia and a new exhibition of Alfred Gregory's photographs will open at the Monash Gallery of Art, in Victoria, on November 2 2007 until February 24 2008. Alfred Gregory now lives near Melbourne.