Artist Information:
Tony Ryan
Crabtree,
Australia
Member Since: Jul 2001
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Artist Statement:
The Preponderance of Women
I think that I always wanted
to photograph women for all
the usual reasons, but over
the last decade I have allowed
my models to participate in
planning the shoot. This
produced the wonderful
complexity of two different
minds on the same project and
got me closest to my ideal of
cramming maximum content and
associations into an
apparently simple composition.
I've tried landscapes,
Cartier-Bresson-type street
images, even artschool
abstracts, but nothing else
produced strong images as
consistently as my female
models.
The imaging of women in art
is, of course, enormously
problematic - not least
because of the enormous weight
of thousands of years of
male-dominated art.
Consciously or unconsciously I
quote from that history. At
the same time there is a
special tension between male
photographer and female model
which, at least in part, comes
from the eternal fascination
with the female "other"
against decades of feminist
debate that has to some extent
touched all women.
At the same time images of
women persist in our culture
(in both art, advertising and
popular culture) because they
are so powerful and
compelling. For instance both
men's AND women's magazines
have ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
1984: Open Shutter, Taslab
Gallery
1986: Real Life, Walters
Restaurant
1989: Cinderella, A Portrait,
Capers Restaurant
1990: Ongoing exhibit at
Bijoux Jewellery, Hobart.
1991: (18 Dec) Group
exhibition for VERSIONS TWO
book launch at the Long
Gallery, Salamanca Place.
1993: My Beautiful Sister.
Sidespace Gallery 6th-24th
October
1994: Objects ...
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Tony Ryan's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Tony Ryan's Portfolio.
The Preponderance of Women
I think that I always wanted to photograph women for all the usual reasons, but over the last decade I have allowed my models to participate in planning the shoot. This produced the wonderful complexity of two different minds on the same project and got me closest to my ideal of cramming maximum content and associations into an apparently simple composition.
I've tried landscapes, Cartier-Bresson-type street images, even artschool abstracts, but nothing else produced strong images as consistently as my female models.
The imaging of women in art is, of course, enormously problematic - not least because of the enormous weight of thousands of years of male-dominated art. Consciously or unconsciously I quote from that history. At the same time there is a special tension between male photographer and female model which, at least in part, comes from the eternal fascination with the female "other" against decades of feminist debate that has to some extent touched all women.
At the same time images of women persist in our culture (in both art, advertising and popular culture) because they are so powerful and compelling. For instance both men's AND women's magazines have ... |
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