Tim Burton Polaroids

Gallery 2, 10am to 6pm daily, free!

ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image

http://www.acmi.net.au

Thursday 24 June 2010 to Monday 06 September 2010

Exhibition previously on at ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne precinct, Victoria, Australia

As part of Tim Burton: The Exhibition, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will showcase a selection of Polaroid images in Gallery 2 from Tim Burton’s photography folio. The display will feature a series of 29 large-scale Polaroid photographs, each approximately 33 inches by 22 inches, created by Tim Burton between 1992 and 1999.

In these works, Burton found another medium for expressing visual themes and motifs that also appear in his sketchbooks, drawings, paintings and films.

Created in studios and on desert and countryside locations with the aid of live models, many of the Polaroids employ fantastic objects and puppets and props from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), while exploring Burton’s fascination with holidays, body modification, and the Gothic.

Tim Burton Polaroids will show in ACMIs Gallery 2 for a strictly limited season until Sunday 26 September, closing two weeks earlier than the major show, Tim Burton: The Exhibition, on display in Gallery 1 until Sunday 10 October, 2010. Tim Burton Polaroids is free admission.