Blue hoodie
(2022)
Medium
inkjet print and silver 35 solar tinting film
Measurements
(120.3 × 79.5 cm) (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by the Eva and Tom Breuer Foundation, 2022
© Mike Goldby
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
This life-sized colour image shows the disjointed torsos of figures moving through city crowds in downtown Toronto. We see a businessman in a grey pinstripe suit, a young woman in a royal blue hoodie and the back of a figure in a suede jacket walking away, photographed at waist height. This photograph captures the experience of being within a crowd. Mike Goldby has overlaid his prints with a highly reflective film that is most often used to cut glare and heat reflection in buildings. On his photographs this treatment partially obscures the images and heightens the sense of the transient nature of crowds as random reflected movement animates these otherwise static images.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Toronto, Canada
Accession Number
2022.1565
Department
International Photography