Debra Phillips
(Australia 1958– )
- Title
- Untitled
- Year
- 1985
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- diptych: Polaroid photographs
- Dimensions
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85.9 x 126.9 x 4.8cm frame:
a - left; 72 x 56cm; sheet
b - right; 72 x 56cm; sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Polaroid Australia Pty Ltd 1988
- Accession number
- 325.2005.a-b
- Copyright
- © Debra Phillips
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This series of diptychs consists of natural objects overlayed onto Landsat satellite images of the Earth, showing both the macrocosmic and microcosmic duality of life. The colours and textures of the images and the objects play off each other, encouraging us to recognise that small things can affect the big picture.
Philips was also interested the visual language of Polaroid and Landsat images, the technical data in the margins and the traces of the chemical process of the Polaroids. Such documentation and technical processes highlight the various ways of recording the Earth and its surface.
- Bibliography (1)
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Judy Annear (Australia), Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95, 2005. no catalogue numbers
- Exhibition history (2)
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In Full View, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 16 Jul 1986–30 Aug 1986.
Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Nov 2005–29 Jan 2006.
