Photographer Wolfgang Sievers, 93
Posted: Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 4:27 pm
Wolfgang Sievers, one of Australia’s most accomplished photographers whose work captured the relationship between man and machine, has died aged 93.
Fleeing Nazi persecution, German-born Sievers arrived in Australia at the outbreak of World War II and quickly found his niche in documenting the country’s post-war manufacturing boom. …
His specialty and skill was in recognising the beauty in industrial forms and documenting the working lives of ordinary men and women, typified in what is possibly his most recognised work, Gears for Mining Industry 1967. … Read full obituary
