{"product_id":"christine-godden-light-touch","title":"Christine Godden – Light Touch","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs5CC07D4{margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs1EFB4FB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:italic;Times New Roman;} .cs95B300B{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;} .cs97DFFCB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;} .cs3388614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs5CC07D4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs1EFB4FB\"\u003eCalifornia, sometime in the early 1970s. It’s hot, light pulsates. The air hums with a sexy, sun-soaked transcendence—blissed out and tripping on its own sense of freedom… Christine Godden ...is attending the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and living in Larkspur, Marin County, outside San Francisco, a ferry or a Golden Gate Bridge car trip away. …It’s hip. Janis Joplin had lived up the road. Californian culture might be dismissed by the buttoned-up European-facing East Coast as hedonistic and all surface with no substance, but who cares: with that comes freedom, and from freedom possibility. It’s a time and a place to be young, idealistic. Godden leans in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs5CC07D4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003eThis extract from Anne O’Hehir’s introduction to her essay in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs1EFB4FB\"\u003eLight Touch \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003ecaptures perfectly the atmosphere of Christine Godden’s images in M.33’s latest publication.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs5CC07D4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003eA milestone in Australian photographic publishing, this exceptionally printed hard cover book brings together Godden’s timeless images made almost 50 years ago. Collected by major Australian institutions late in the 20th century, many of these evocative and often gently erotic images have – with some notable exceptions – largely disappeared from general circulation, no doubt as a result of Godden stepping away from her photographic practice in the mid 1980s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs5CC07D4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs1EFB4FB\"\u003eLight Touch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an opportunity to engage with these often fragmentary yet intimate and beautifully photographed images of people, animals, and domestic objects – all treated with the same curiosity and tenderness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs5CC07D4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003eChristine Godden’s images in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs1EFB4FB\"\u003eLight Touch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare complemented by essays from Helen Ennis and Anne O’Hehir which together offer an historical context for Godden’s work and also highlight her unique contribution to feminist art making, her historical significance as a photographer and her continuing relevance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e116 pages, 24 x 24 cm, hardcover, M.33 (Naarm \/ Melbourne).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Kangaroo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44259163078744,"sku":"9780645694796","price":66.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/8343\/1000\/files\/9780645694796_1.png?v=1781832350","url":"https:\/\/redkangaroobooks.au\/products\/christine-godden-light-touch","provider":"Red Kangaroo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}