PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE RETURN OF THE DEAD
Monash Gallery of Art
Saturday 14 August 2010 to Saturday 14 August 2010
Opening Saturday 14 August 2010 3.00pm
Join prominent photographic artists ANNE FERRAN and ROD McNICOL, and well-known curator and writer HELEN ENNIS as they discuss photography’s ability to keep the past alive. Free event, bookings preferred.
Contemporary culture is obsessed with keeping the dead alive. While vampires and zombies were once the mainstay of horror films and literature, the success of Buffy and more recently the Twilight saga suggest our collective fascination with the undead has reached phenomenal proportions.
Photography is also preoccupied with the undead: it keeps the past alive, in the form of a magical, silvery image. As part of its latest exhibition Living deadly: haunted surfaces and contemporary art, MGA is hosting a panel discussion on photography’s ability to keep the past alive.
3.00pm Saturday 14 August 2010
FREE EVENT
Bookings preferred
mga@monash.vic.gov.au or T: 03 8544 0500
Monash Gallery of Art
860 Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150
