Travelling Exhibitions

2 March 2010 to 15 June 2010

Australia has a rich tradition of fashion photography. Many of the country’s leading photographers have at one time or another turned to fashion as a commercial opportunity or as a critical subject.

This exhibition includes the work of some of Australia’s best-known fashion photographers. These include Jack Cato, Henry Talbot and Helmut Newton, who each showed a very particular relationship to the genre. The weird mix of the theatrical and the everyday of Cato’s models, Newton’s forthrightness, and Talbot’s juxtaposition of the Outback and urban glamour often twisted the conventions of fashion photography, producing an Australian fashion photography that is both idiosyncratic and humorous.

Fashion itself has also been a subject for photographers in Australia. From Pat Brassington’s twirling twins to David Rosetzky’s male model collages, Australian photographers have often used fashion as a basis for work that, in the end, also twists fashion photography and our expectations of it.

Strange glamour: fashion photography from the MGA Collection is a special exhibition curated for the 2010 L’Oréal Melbourne fashion festival cultural program.

Exhibition managed by Global Art Projects, Consulting curator to Sofitel Melbourne On Collins

Venue details

On display 2 March 2010 – 1 June 2010

Lobby Gallery, Level 1
Sofitel Melbourne On Collins
25 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000