Fiona Hall
(Australia 1953– )
- Title
- Barcelona, Spain, May 1976
- Year
- 1976
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
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27.9 x 27.8cm image; 40.4 x 30.4cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Hallmark Cards Australian Photography Collection Fund 1987
- Accession number
- 372.1987
- Copyright
- © Fiona Hall
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Fiona Hall's diversified practice includes installation, mixed media and photography. She trained as both a painter and photographer in Sydney, London and Rochester, New York, before returning to Australia to work professionally and teach in the early 1980s. Her early photographs present intriguing and seductive images of the world, unexpected glimpses of life and places. Documentary becomes truly a process of revealing what we might otherwise miss. Hall's work also plays with light, and its ability to both reveal and cloak. In 'Barcelona, Spain, May 1976', the shadows appear like smoke, seductively wisping their way across the wall.
- Bibliography (5)
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Natasha Bullock (Australia), Australian postwar photodocumentary, Domain, 2004. no catalogue numbers
'More than meets the eye' by Judy Annear, pg. 8-9., Look Jun 1999, Jun 1999, 8 (illus.).
Judy Annear (Australia) (Author), What is this thing called photography?, Sydney, 1999. no catalogue numbers
Robert McFarlane (Australia, b.1942) (Author), Critic's Choice, Sydney, 1994, 7 (illus.), 10. no catalogue numbers
Sandra Byron (Australia) (Author), Isobel Crombie (Australia) (Author), Twenty contemporary Australian photographers - from the Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection, Melbourne, 1990.
- Exhibition history (3)
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Critic's Choice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Apr 1994–10 Jul 1994.
What is this thing called photography?, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 05 Jun 1999–29 Jul 1999.
Australian postwar photodocumentary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 Jun 2004–08 Aug 2004.
