Role Play: Portrait Photography |
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25 October - 06 April 2008
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| National Gallery of Victoria
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Portrait photography is a complex and fascinating area of photographic practice that, at its heart, has a dynamic process of collaboration between the sitter, the viewer and the camera operator. In this exhibition, a provocative interchange between historical and contemporary photography has been created to suggest how photographers work to construct, question or reflect the notion of ‘role playing’. Role Play will include approximately 40 photographs arranged in three broad thematic groupings, namely allegorical portraiture (H.P Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Cindy Sherman, William Wegman); portraits that either typecast or question social roles (August Sander, Edweard Muybridge, Anne Ferran); and theatrical photographs in which the sitter acts a role, (including G.B Poletto’s wardrobe photographs of Ava Gardner in On the Beach).
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Artists:
G.B Poletto, H.P Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Cindy Sherman, William Wegman, August Sander, Edweard Muybridge, Anne Ferran
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