Susanne Helene Ford (19 March 1943 – 6 November 2009) was an Australian feminist photographer who started her arts practice in the 1960s. She was the first Australian photographer to have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1974 with Time Series. A book of her portraits of women ‘A Sixtieth of a Second’ was published in 1987. Her photographs and eclectic practice was displayed in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2014.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Early life
- 3 Personal life
- 3.1 Peggy Sue Got Married
- 3.2 The John Ford Encyclopedia
- 3.3 The Moonlight Child
- 3.4 The Rounders
- 3.5 Ford Fairlane
- 3.6 Alan Hovhaness: And God Created Great Whales / Concerto No. 8 for Orchestra / Anahis (Fantasy for Chamber Orchestra) / Elibris / Alleluia and Fugue
- 3.7 Tombstone
- 3.8 Anova Culinary Sous Vide Precision Cooker Nano | Bluetooth | 750W | Anova App Included
- 3.9 Peggy Sue Got Married
- 3.10 Ford Fairlane
Biography
Sue Ford was born Susanne Helene Winslow on 19 March 1943, in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria. She was an Australian feminist photographer. Ford had a continuing raptness in Indigenous issues, travelling widely and photographing in remote areas of Central Australia. In 1988, she travelled to Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, to conduct photography workshops considering Tiwi women. She moved in the middle of Bathurst Island and the Barunga Festival (Northern Territory, Sydney and Melbourne) to photograph activities connected to the bicentenary of Australia. Between 1990 and 1992, Ford’s process shifted from direct camera be in to a series of collage images. Each collage was gridded up and each grab section well along printed at A3 size to create large format grid images. She plus worked bearing in mind a series of ink and watercolour paintings connected to her tune of the Cook Islands, Bathurst Island and the deserts in NT. In 1991 Ford bought a house in Marlborough Street, Balaclava, Melbourne where she lived until 2009. She made a second trip to Bathurst Island to produce an effect with the Tiwi women in the similar year. Ford died in 2009 in her Balaclava house on 6 November, surrounded by her family and friends. In 2010, the Sue Ford archive was established. In 2011 Ford’s last major body of work Self Portrait gone a Camera, 1960–2006, was exhibited at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne. It involves a conflation and compression of time. It includes some of Ford’s olden photographs next door to her most recent and severely personal nevertheless ordered and seek at the same time. The prehistoric photographs in the series are from behind Ford was first introduced to the camera.
Early life
The earliest photographs are from in the reveal of Ford was first introduced to the camera. Ford was unqualified her first camera in her late youth to take with her on a relatives holiday to Europe. It was upon her reward in 1961 that Ford found employment as a delivery woman for Sutcliffe photographers in Melbourne and committed as a darkroom assistant. In 1962, she enrolled in a photography course at RMIT, she was deserted one of two females in a class of thirty students. Ford completed lonely the first year of a three-year course. She subsequently rented a studio in Little Collins street, Melbourne with a friend Annette Stephens, a fellow RMIT student and friend. This was above a little cafe. Ford also documented her kids extensively and experimented subsequently concepts for children’s books, pairing images and text in imaginative narrative sequences that were often aligned by a theme of escape. In the late 1960s Ford created several bodies of doing that contained simplex montages, photograms and layers negatives, received hours of darkroom experimentation. The photo collage Man off the moon, c. 1969 critiqued the first moonwalk by NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Using images shot upon a television screen, Ford places her hand into the scene, directing the astronauts when a puppet in a pretentiousness that asserts her own presence and questions mean of the Americans on the lunar landscape.
Personal life
In 1982, Ford suffered a all-powerful horse riding crash that resulted in a put up to injury; as a upshot Ford could not photograph for some become old and commenced painting. Living in Williamstown from 1983 to 1985, Victoria. Melbourne.[clarification needed] Ford travelled each winter to Byron Bay, NSW, making many associates and working upon art projects. Ford dropped out of RMIT due to sexual harassment in the darkroom during her first year. She permanently turned the camera upon herself, her family, friends and acquaintances for social and political ends. Her experimentation gone technique and media including not unaided photography but film, video, painting, drawing and progressive printing was as well as connected, from the unconditionally beginning, by interest in the politics of representation. She next studied at the Victorian College of Arts (VCA) 1973–1974. In 1974, the NGV’s display of Time Series 1962–74 constituted the first solo exhibition by an Australian photographer.
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