Catalogues - Signature Works

Signature Works

Editor: Alasdair Foster
Published: Australian Centre for Photography, 1999

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.

IMAGE © Bill Henson Untitled 1984