Ann Noon
(England, Australia 1950– )
- Title
- Untitled (Boys playing)
- Year
- 1985
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
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20.5 x 30.0cm image; 28.9 x 37.4cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. original mount, pencil "...Ann Noon '85".
- Credit
- Purchased 1986
- Accession number
- 18.1986
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Noon's photographs are distinguished by their refined compositions in which the human body is offset against a stark background. Born in England, Noon moved to Australia as a teenager. She became interested in photography in her early twenties. After working for a suburban wedding/portrait studio and other commercial photographic studies, Noon became a freelance photographer in 1975. Commenting on her diving photographs Noon writes: "They are to do with summer, physical strength, control, boldness, youth, clouds and the geometric arrangements of shapes... The physical marvel of the human form flying through space".
- Bibliography (2)
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Natasha Bullock (Australia), Australian postwar photodocumentary, Domain, 2004. no catalogue numbers
Jorge Calado (Author), À Prova de Água Waterproof, Lisbon, 1998, (illus.). plate no. 200
- Exhibition history (3)
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Fine and mostly sunny: photographs from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 28 Sep 1991–01 Dec 1991.
Waterproof - One Hundred Days Festival - Expo 98, Lisboa EXPO 98, 27 Feb 1998–31 May 1998.
Australian postwar photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 Jun 2004–08 Aug 2004.
