Exhibition of photos

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33261, 26 June 1973, Page 13

Exhibition of photos

Bill Mohi, a New Zealandborn photographer who has been working as a tutor in ■photography at the Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney University, exhibits 20 photographic prints in an exhibition of his work at the Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery. He sees photography as “merely another medium like etching, lithographs and screen printing.” His subjects in this ex-; Ihibition are mostly female' nudes, and of this he says: in his catalogue: “I find’ beauty in youth, and in parts) of the human form that) traditionally were considered) obscene. It is not necessarily, my intention to shock—my work is not pornographic—only the liberated maturity of today’s art allows me to practise this set of aesthetic values.” Indeed, he tends to concentrate on the main eroge-: nous zones of the body, but) eliminates detail where it is; likely to offend. In No. 16 to No. 20 a series based on a pregnant figure, he moves away from tonal modelling by eliminating half tones, which he sees as “a progression i nto abstraction and the making minimal of the human form.” The exhibition will remain open until July 3. —G.T.M.