Fiona Hall

(Australia 1953– )

Title

Manly Beach, Sydney, Australia, January 1985

Year

1985

Media category

Photograph

Materials used

gelatin silver photograph

Dimensions

19.6 x 24.5cm image; 20.3 x 25.2cm sheet

Signature & date

Not signed. Not dated.

Credit

Hallmark Cards Australian Photography Collection Fund 1987

Accession number

376.1987

Copyright

Location

Not on display

Further information

'I could say that these pictures are about an obsessive Australian pastime. At the beach. Really, though, the concerns are simpler: an excuse, if one is needed, to work when light and space and attitude are open; where bodies and emotions are unveiled and made accessible; where the camera is given licence to divulge, yet does not intrude.' Fiona Hall 1986

This photograph was taken with a large-format camera, which produces fine detail and requires careful composition of the subject. Although such a process does not usually allow for spontaneity, Hall invests the images with a relaxed attitude and carefree spirit.

Bibliography (4)

Judy Annear (Australia), Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95, 2005. no catalogue numbers

Sandra Byron (Australia) (Author), Isobel Crombie (Australia) (Author), Twenty contemporary Australian photographers - from the Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection, Melbourne, 1990, 42 (illus.).

Sandra Byron (Australia) (Author), Fine and Mostly Sunny: Photographs from the collection, Sydney, 1991. catalogue no: 56

Katherine Roberts (Australia) (Author), Heather Johnson (Author), Celebrating Paradise - The artist and the Northern Beaches: 1890 to 2000, Manly, 1999, 15, 21.

Exhibition history (3)

Fine and mostly sunny: photographs from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 28 Sep 1991–01 Dec 1991.

Celebrating Paradise - The artist and the Northern Beaches: 1890-2000, Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, 10 Dec 1999–30 Jan 2000.

Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Nov 2005–29 Jan 2006.