02 PM | 13 May

Snapshot – ‘Darlinghurst Eats Its Young’ – part of the Left Coast Festival

Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:00pm – 8:00pm SEDITION-the barbershop 275 Victoria St Darlinghurst Sydney, Australia View Map

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“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there” – LP Hartley, The Go-Between

Big hair, big pants, and long gone buildings.

Recently a friend put up a lot of scanned photos on Facebook. They were all of Sydney in the 80s. The hair, the clothes, the look of the past; they got a lot of attention from people, some just liked the aged look of old photos, the look you cant get with digital pics.

Why do people load old fashioned ring tones for their iPhone? What is it that makes people nostalgic for an era they didn’t know? What makes the look and sounds of ‘analogue’ so appealing?

The snapshots on show at SEDITION show a pre digital version of an almost disappeared city. A Sydney of cheap housing; a Sydney yet to be gentrified.

Come and check out the installation in SEDITION’s window – a scrolling view of images courtesy of Maggie Woods, David Art Wales, Miranda Douglas, Bruce Carter, Rohan Glasgow, Mandy Vuksanovic and you…?

IF YOU HAVE ANY SNAPSHOTS OF INNER SYDNEY IN THE 80s and you’d like to exhibit them as part of Snapshot@The Left Coast Festival contact  prestonm@tpg.com.au

…and appearing live The NOISE will be performing from 7pm Snapshot is a part of the Left Coast Festival – (12th May – 30th June) being held at Sedition barbershop on Victoria St.