National Archives of Australia
Strike a Pose ... with Lee Lin Chin
18 April 2012 to 8 July 2012
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery
1 Barolin Street
Bundaberg QLD 4670
Tour schedule
- Opens:
- 20 July 2012
- Closes:
- 21 October 2012
- Location:
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Liverpool Regional Museum
Cnr Hume Highway and Congressional Drive
Liverpool NSW 1871
Australian Wool Board’s Golden Ram Awards, 1971
Strike a Pose ... with Lee Lin Chin features 89 images taken by Australian Government photographers during the 1960s and 70s to promote the burgeoning Australian fashion industry. Many images are drawn from the collection of the Australian News and Information Bureau, which took images to promote Australian industry and lifestyle overseas.
With fashion icon and broadcaster Lee Lin Chin as guest curator, the exhibition celebrates the emerging local fashion industry of the time, along with its personalities, trends and influences.
'These pictures are not about art,' writes Lee Lin Chin. 'They are not even just about fashion because, from today's perspective, they've recorded a transcendent historical moment when nothing was going to be quite the same again.'
Lee Lin's chosen images represent the many aspects of this exhibition, and the decades that the exhibition explores. From casual shorts in the country to the chic of the city, from funky leather to smart pillbox hats, from sun soaked beaches to brilliant skies, Lee Lin’s commentary reflects the larger changes that were taking place.
This exhibition tour is sponsored by Visions of Australia
