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Red Light

August - September, 2002

Tue - Sun: 11.00am - 6.00pm
Galleries One, Two and Foyer

E.J. Bellocq
Brassaï
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Larry Clark
Atta Kim
Margaret Michaelis-Sachs
Tracey Moffatt
Max Pam
Lee-Anne Richards
Dayanita Singh
Megan Spencer

DRAMATIC, CHALLENGING, HUMANE. Red Light is a major new exhibition organised by the Australian Centre for Photography surveying imagery of prostitution across the 20th century and into the 21st. The exhibition features materworks such as Bellocq's Storyville Portraits, Brassaï's Secret Paris of the 1930s and Larry Clark's images of hustlers in 1970s New York City. Contemporary artists include Tracey Moffatt, Max Pam, Dayanita Singh from India and Atta Kim from Korea, and the show premieres new work by Megan Spencer and Lee-Anne Richards. Presented in an immersive, theatrical environment, Red Light takes a humanising rather than sensationalist approach to its subject across nine decades and four continents.

The ACP gratefully acknowledges the generous loan of works by Bellocq, Brassaï, Cartier-Bresson, Clark and Michaelis from the Photography Collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Without the support of the NGA, this exhibition would not have been possible.

Image Credits:

•  Brassai, A prostitute playing Russian billiards, Boulevard Rochechouart, Montmartre, c.1932
•  Bellocq, untitled, c.1911-1913









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