Faces in the crowd, Bourke Street (Vietnam moratorium protest)

Faces in the crowd, Bourke Street (Vietnam moratorium protest) 1970

FATOUROS, Harry

Registration number

1930031

Artist/maker

FATOUROS, Harry

Title

Faces in the crowd, Bourke Street (Vietnam moratorium protest)

Production date

1970

Medium

digital file (scanned Kodak Tri-X film negative)

Credit line

Donation of Harry Fatouros
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection
© Harry Fatouros

Keywords

Harry Fatouros, Bourke Street, Vietnam moratorium protest, 8 May 1970

Summary

This photograph by Harry Fatouros was taken on Bourke Street in Melbourne CBD on the day of the first Vietnam moratorium protest, 8 May 1970. The protests were the largest public demonstrations in Australia’s history at the time. At the time, Fatouros was a student at Monash University. The images were taken with a Pentax Spotmatic camera on Kodak TriX film.