Royal Melbourne Show 3 1982
MADDISON, Ruth
Registration number
1899480
Artist/maker
MADDISON, Ruth
Title
Royal Melbourne Show 3
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 a young girl at the Royal Melbourne Show, taken in September 1982. The girl in the photograph is Ruth's daughter. 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.