Royal Melbourne Show 1

Royal Melbourne Show 1 1982

MADDISON, Ruth

Registration number

1899478

Artist/maker

MADDISON, Ruth

Title

Royal Melbourne Show 1

Production date

1982

Medium

photograph (digital image, scanned negative)

Credit line

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

Keywords

Ruth Maddison, Royal Melbourne Show, 1982, Melbourne Showgrounds, Flemington, photograph

Summary

This photograph by Ruth Maddison captures two young boys with fake bottoms at the Royal Melbourne Show, taken in September 1982. 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.