Current Season Current Exhibitions Current Events Video Lounge Future Exhibitions Past Exhibitions Touring Exhibitions News Catalogues Online Projects How to propose an exhibition Exhibitions for Hire 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 Signature Works - 25th Anniversary Exhibition 28 May - 3 July, 1999 Tue - Sun: 11.00am - 6.00pm Gallery One Fiona Hall Bill Henson Carol Jerrems Maria Kozic Tracey Moffatt Max Pam Patricia Piccinini Jon Rhodes Michael Riley Anne Zahalka In 1999, the ACP marks a quarter century of exhibition. Poised on the brink of a new millennium, the anniversary offers a unique opportunity to explore the recent history of this dominant cultural art form through an exhibition called 'Signature Works'. Rather than follow the conventions of an authoritative linear history, the anniversary exhibition brings together a series of images which are immediately and powerfully recalled as emblematic of the period - 'Signature Works'. Selected by 25 photographic curators, writers, artists and academics from around Australia, this collection of imagery is not intended as a definitive pantheon, but creates a space in which to make your own connections. To contemplate just what it is that leads certain images to stay in the memory or become icons of their age. The Photo Library is proud to support the Australian Centre for Photography's 25th Anniversary exhibitions. Image Credits: •  Bill Henson, Untitled, 1983/4 (detail from triptych) Sunbaker: The Making of an Icon Gallery Two Assembled from the research and visual references collected by Gael Newton and Martyn Jolly Max Dupain's 'Sunbaker' was made in 1937 while he was on holiday in Calburra on the south coast of New South Wales. Originally there were two negatives, each slightly different poses, but one was lost. The other was little known until 1975 when it appeared on a poster for one of the ACP's earliest exhibitions. Over the next two decades, the image of the anonymous Aussie surfer became, in the words of Gael Newton - Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia, "the single most widely recognised Australian photograph". For some the image is nostalgic - out of the mould of 'Chesty Bond'. For others it represents a nationalistic stereotype to be spoofed or seriously subverted. Image Credits: •  Max Dupain, Sunbaker, 1937 (courtesy Josef Lebovic Gallery) Terms and Conditions | © Copyright: Australian Centre for Photography, 2008. All Rights Reserved. Site by Suture Net | Hosting by Dreamhost