Temporarily
(1969)
from The tide recedes series 1969–71
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
(93.4 × 145.4 cm) (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1996
© Courtesy of the artist
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Sue Ford’s fascination with experimental techniques was evident in her first solo exhibition, The Tide Recedes, at Melbourne’s Hawthorn City Gallery in 1971. The invitation to the exhibition contained a piece of narrative prose comprising the works’ titles in a sequence. This is one of the few surviving large-scale vintage prints from the exhibition. It demonstrates the artist’s working methods, in which images are distorted, repeated and mirrored. Ford photographed the women nude in a studio, then superimposed those images with negatives of beach scenes, expressing an anxiety that people were becoming too removed from nature.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
1996.768
Department
Australian Photography
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest