Melbourne City Baths hydrotherapy group 1

Melbourne City Baths hydrotherapy group 1 1991

MADDISON, Ruth

Registration number

1899487

Artist/maker

MADDISON, Ruth

Title

Melbourne City Baths hydrotherapy group 1

Production date

1991

Medium

photograph (digital image, scanned negative)

Credit line

Purchased 2024
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection
© Ruth Maddison

Keywords

Melbourne City Baths, pool, hydrotherapy, women, aquatic, 1991

Summary

This photograph by Ruth Maddison captures a group of women participating in a hydrotherapy group at Melbourne City Baths, taken in 1991. 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.