Moomba Flinders Street Station steps 1

Moomba Flinders Street Station steps 1 1987

MADDISON, Ruth

Registration number

1899485

Artist/maker

MADDISON, Ruth

Title

Moomba Flinders Street Station steps 1

Production date

1987

Medium

photograph (digital image, scanned negative)

Credit line

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

Keywords

Moomba, photography, Ruth Maddison, 1987, Flinders Street Station

Summary

This photograph by Ruth Maddison captures 3 kids on the steps of Flinders Street Station during Moomba, taken in 1987. 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.