Briscoe Motors

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D750
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
24mm · f/5.0 · 1/1000 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The derelict Briscoe Motors dealership stands silent on Parramatta Road. Faded paint peels from its walls, and broken glass litters the ground. This once-bustling showroom now succumbs to urban decay.

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Briscoe Motors at Parramatta Road, a white rendered Art Deco façade sits square to the street.Briscoe Motors at Parramatta Road, a white rendered Art Deco façade sits square to the street.Briscoe Motors at Parramatta Road, a white rendered Art Deco façade sits square to the street.Briscoe Motors at Parramatta Road, a white rendered Art Deco façade sits square to the street.Briscoe Motors at Parramatta Road, a white rendered Art Deco façade sits square to the street.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Briscoe Motors
Series
Parramatta Road
Catalogue
PRO-007
Process
Giclée
Captured
4 September 2016
Camera
NIKON D750
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/5.0
Shutter
1/1000 s
ISO
100
Focal length
24 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Recognised by
National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A white rendered Art Deco façade sits square to the street. Red block lettering reads Briscoe Motors Pty Ltd across the parapet, with "Est. 1940" centred above. Two phone numbers flank the entrance in matching red. Small tiled awnings shade a pair of symmetrical windows. The front door is painted grey. Cracks split the concrete apron. A large eucalypt rises behind the roofline, dwarfing the single-storey building. Hard midday light. No shadows on the footpath.

Brett Patman

Parramatta Road

The series

Parramatta Road

2017 · 27 photographs

Parramatta Road follows a much older route, used for thousands of years by the Wangal, Wallumedegal, Burramattagal, and Cadigal peoples before colonial adoption around 1789 to 1791. Today it is one of Sydney's main thoroughfares: 23 km of heavy traffic, with used car dealers at the Parramatta end ("Auto Alley") and a mix of historic shopfronts, new apartment blocks, and WestConnex demolition at the eastern end. The series moves between streetscape and individual buildings - 107 Parramatta Road in Annandale (an 1890s Victorian Filigree shopfront with original living quarters above accessible only by ladder), the Marco Polo Motel at Summer Hill, the Olympia Milk Bar in Stanmore, Mario's Meat Market, and shopfronts whose ground floors have been busy for a century while the rooms above have been empty for fifty years.

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