Riley

Sue Ford
Australia
1943 – 6 November 2009

Riley
from the Time series
1964; and 1974
two gelatin-silver photographs
Place made
Melbourne
Medium
two gelatin-silver photographs
Dimensions
11.2 x 8.2 cm (each)
Credit line
Gift of the artist 1979
Accession number
7911Ph81(a&b)
Media category
Photograph
Collection area
Australian photographs

  • WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016

     

    The Time series was conceived by Sue Ford in 1973–74, but was originally intended to be titled Ten Faces. The idea for including photographs taken many years apart struck Ford after she’d observed a friend:

     

    I’d been to see this girlfriend of mine. Looking at her face, I thought: ’God she’s changed. It’s really amazing’. Driving down Punt Road I suddenly remembered I still had an old photograph of her, a passport shot I’d done when she was eighteen … so I started finding all my old portraits and old negatives.

     

    For the Time series Ford photographed friends in her immediate circle. She wanted the works to be unsentimental and use the camera as objectively as possible. For her, the camera was a ’time machine’. Ford remarked ’The camera showed me with absolute clarity, something I could only just perceive with my naked eye’.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

     

  • Sue Ford

    The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 17 April 2014 – 24 August 2014

  • Australia Exposed : Highlights of Australian Photography

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 28 January 1993 – 18 April 1993

  • Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016
  • Sue Ford 1943 – 6 November 2009

    Jim

    1964; and 1974
    two gelatin-silver photographs
    Accession no: 7911Ph78(a&b)
  • Sue Ford 1943 – 6 November 2009

    Joy

    1964; and 1974
    two gelatin-silver photographs
    Accession no: 7911Ph80(a&b)
  • Sue Ford 1943 – 6 November 2009

    Lynne

    1964; and 1974
    two gelatin-silver photographs
    Accession no: 7911Ph79(a&b)
  • Sue Ford 1943 – 6 November 2009

    Riley

    1964; and 1974
    two gelatin-silver photographs
    Accession no: 7911Ph81(a&b)