Untitled (from The Seventh Wave)
Photographer
Narelle Autio
(Australian, born 1961)
Date1999-2000
Object number00033567
NamePhotograph
MediumDigital type C print
DimensionsOverall: 1097 x 2925 mm
Display dimensions (Frame): 1148 x 2980 x 72 mm
Display dimensions (Frame): 1148 x 2980 x 72 mm
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionAn untiled photograph by Narelle Autio from the Seventh Wave series. This black and white diptych photographic print depicts eleven bodies diving beneath the crash of a breaking wave.
Narelle Autio worked with her partner Trent Parke on this Seventh Wave series. This particular photograph was herown work. Edition of 15. This print is 1/15.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.
SignificanceThis photograph is significant in capturing the profound effect the ocean has on the Australian sense of self.
