Hairdressing students, City Square 1986
MADDISON, Ruth
Registration number
1899484
Artist/maker
MADDISON, Ruth
Title
Hairdressing students, City Square
Production date
1986
Medium
photograph (digital image, scanned negative)
Credit line
Purchased 2024
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection
© Ruth Maddison
Keywords
City Square, photograph, Ruth Maddison, 1986, hairdressing, young people
Summary
This photograph by Ruth Maddison captures a group of young hairdressing students, taken at City Square in 1986. Since shooting her first roll of film in 1976, Ruth Maddison (b. 1945) has become one of Australia's foremost photographers. As a social documentary and feminist photographer, much of her work has captured Melbourne's social, cultural and political life.