Untitled #16 (from The Seventh Wave)
Photographer
Narelle Autio
(Australian, born 1961)
Date1999-2000
Object number00036238
NamePhotograph
MediumDigital C type print
DimensionsDisplay dimensions (Frame): 1048 x 1490 x 70 mm
Sheet: 900 x 1340 mm
Sheet: 900 x 1340 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionUntitled [photograph of the legs of four boogie board riders as they wait for a wave].Underwater view of the legs of four boogie board riders as they wait for a wave. Various pools of light featured on surface of water. Framed by wide white border. Verso features handwriting in pencil at lower right corner that reads "Narelle Autio 2/15 2000". Edition 2 of 15.HistoryIn 1999 Narelle Autio and her partner Trent Parke, both photojournalists at the Sydney Morning Herald, embarked on a body of work about their youthful fantasies gambolling in the ocean.
Together they probed the different energies of their childhood beaches – Autio’s flat calming Gulf St Vincent around Adelaide and Parke’s powerful Pacific Ocean at Newcastle.
The Seventh Wave series is the result of this study. These big, bold otherworldly images show bodies from underneath - a fish’s perspective. What lurks beneath is raw, compelling, sometimes sensuous, dangerous, serene and above all suspenseful.
c 1966
