No standing, only dancing : photographs by Rennie Ellis. (Deluxe edition with photograph)

A$990 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, black Brillianta linen with debossed Rennie Ellis signature and clear foil finish, hand crafted slip case, pp. 135, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 110 copies (of which 100 were for sale) with an original Rennie Ellis photograph Dino Ferrari, Toorak Road 1976 (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm) signed by his widow Kerry Oldfield Ellis. Mint copy, as new, in shrinkwrap. Rare. “Art or not art, that is immaterial – I continue on my way, seeking my own truth, ever affirming today.” In 1977 Rennie Ellis used this quote, by the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, to explain the rationale for his own photography. When he began to photograph, Ellis aspired to work as a photojournalist, but within a few years he had moved away from the more detached and objective position of a reporter. Rennie Ellis was wholeheartedly engaged with life, with the absurdities, the ironies, the passion and the small dramas of the everyday. Rennie was renowned for his candid documentary images of contemporary Australian life. He was best known for his photographs of social events, such as music festivals, fashion parades or nightclubs. But his oeuvre also encompassed the grittier side of life. During his career he photographed life on the streets, sometimes showing the darker aspects of society such as his Kings Cross series. Ultimately, Ellis’ vision of the world was celebratory; his photographs in this exhibition document the richness a

• Binding: Hardcover

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