Strike a Pose ... with Lee Lin Chin features 89 images taken by Australian Government photographers during the 1960s and 70s to promote the burgeoning Australian fashion industry. Many images are drawn from the collection of the Australian News and Information Bureau, which took images to promote Australian industry and lifestyle overseas.
With fashion icon and broadcaster Lee Lin Chin as guest curator, the exhibition celebrates the emerging local fashion industry of the time, along with its personalities, trends and influences.
'These pictures are not about art,' writes Lee Lin Chin. 'They are not even just about fashion because, from today's perspective, they've recorded a transcendent historical moment when nothing was going to be quite the same again.'
Lee Lin's chosen images represent the many aspects of this exhibition, and the decades that the exhibition explores. From casual shorts in the country to the chic of the city, from funky leather to smart pillbox hats, from sun soaked beaches to brilliant skies, Lee Lin’s commentary reflects the larger changes that were taking place.
Srike a Pose is part of the Vivid National Photography Festival, which features 100 photographic exhibitions at 50 venues in and around Canberra from 11 July to 12 October 2008.
