Flesh: The Gold Coast in the 1960s, 70s and 80s

The Gold Cost of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s was a special time and place. The popular beaches and parks exploded with a myriad of happenings – with plenty of flesh in all shapes and sizes on show.

Before the internet and digital photography, amateur photographer and social documentarian Graham Burstow moved freely among the people, chatting and photographing human interactions and forms on very close-up and public display.

His black-and-white hand-printed images capture the essence of the Gold Coast in these decades while stirring emotions that transcend the era and locale, speaking directly to the heart.

'Graham Burstow's photographs celebrate and document a very particular time on the Australian beach. [His] photographs remind us of what many think of as a more innocent Australia, perhaps a less-knowing Australia.' Professor Peter Spearritt Historian and author