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Details
- Dates
- 1980
printed 1990 - Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Edition
- 6/10
- Dimensions
- 48.1 x 48.2 cm image; 60.6 x 50.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. verso, ink "Lynn Davis 1990".
- Credit
- Gift of Edron Pty Ltd - 1996 through the auspices of Alistair McAlpine
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 701.1996
- Copyright
- © Lynn Davis
- Artist information
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Lynn Davis
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About
Lynn Davis revels in the realist fragment in her approach to photographing the body. She said in 1985 that she likes keeping the final image ‘on the level of the sensuality of shapes and forms’. She asks her subjects to push the body beyond its limits so that beauty and excitement can be exaggerated. Davis worked with dancers to explore these limits in the present series. She asked for extreme discipline in movement, the formation of shapes, contrasts and physical tensions which she found exhilarating in their abstractions.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Peter Weiermair (Editor), Lynn Davis: "Body Work" 1978-1985, Switzerland, 1994, 95 (illus.).
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