An Unorthodox Flow of Images: Centre for Contemporary Photography CCP
Mother - Pram
Inkjet print on cotton rag
120 x 180 cm
Michael Cook
30 Sep - 12 Nov 2017
An Unorthodox Flow of Images, curated by Naomi Cass and Pippa Milne and presented by the Centre of Contemporary with Melbourne Festival features works by Michael Cook. The exhibition commences with what is known as the first press photograph in Australia and unfurls through historic, press, portraiture, popular and art photography, some in their intended material form and others as reproductions. An unbroken thread connects this line of still and moving images, each tied to those on either side through visual, conceptual, temporal, material or circumstantial links.
This is a proposition about photography now. Relationships between images are sometimes real, and sometimes promiscuous. Unorthodox brings new contexts to existing artworks whilst celebrating the materiality of real photographs, in real time and critically, honouring the shared democratic experience of the public gallery space.