About this artwork
Ron O'Donnell was one of the photographers who participated in the much celebrated revival of Scottish culture in the 1980s. In late 1984 he abandoned documentary work and began to produce photographs in which he combined collage, sculpture and painting. In this image, he uses a tartan dupe hung with cameras to comment on photography's contribution to the emergence of a cheap popular culture in Scotland.
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artist:Ron O'Donnell (born 1952) Scottish
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title:'Doc Doc Document' from the series 'Constructed Narratives'
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date created:1985
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materials:Colour photograph
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measurements:19.50 x 24.50 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1987
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accession number:PGP 106.3
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Ron O'Donnell
Ron O'Donnell
Ron O'Donnell was born in Stirling in 1952. He studied photography at Napier Polytechnic, Edinburgh and was a trainee photographer at Stirling University from 1970-6. He has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad. In his large colour prints of constructed installations he often uses recycled...
