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Exhibited
at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 1999, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery,
Sydney, 2000, Manly Art Gallery and toured throughout
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"Anne
Zahalka's series, Leisureland maps some of the co-ordinates of modern
leisure in images that occupy a vantage point between the production
and consumption of down time. Her photographs document the stuff
we do; the myriad forms of gambling, sightseeing in the air, underwater,
in the past, hardening our bodies in gyms, crowding a lecture by
Derrida, chilling at the pool, catching a simulated war or a round
of Aqua Golf, 'Golf, with a difference!'
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Through
a series of large scale photographic images taken in real locations
"Zahalka's images deploy conventions of photographic realism
in tandem with contemporary technologies that facilitate a precision
of colour and detail, an organisation of pictorial surface, and
a scale hitherto associated with traditional history painting or
the advertising billboard".2 |
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2
SeeBlair French's paper 'The Photogenic Image on recent work by
Rosemary Laing and Anne Zahalka' at Centre for Contemporary Photography,
Melbourne.
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