I've Been Loved / William Yang

P4/52

fonds

26 January 1998

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9675734

1 photographic print - inkjet - 54 x 76 cm

William Yang was born in 1943 in Dimbulah, Queensland and found an interest in photography after studying architecture at the University of Queensland. In the late 1960s, he relocated to Sydney and worked as a playwright for the Performance Syndicate, later photographing social events. Yang considered himself more of an artist than a commercial photographer and held his first exhibition in 1977. He became involved with the gay subculture around Oxford Street, Sydney and began to explore his previously unacknowledged Chinese Australian identity. His work explores culture, sexuality and identity and has been exhibited across Australia, Japan and the United States.

Source:
Wikipedia. William Yang. Accessed 16 February 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yang

Image was exhibited in Diasporic Dialogue, Art Atrium Gallery, Botany, 8 to 22 October 2022.

Colour inkjet photoprint of William Yang with a group of friends, inscribed "In the nineties I was active with Asian Lesbian and Gay Pride. Here I felt I had found kindred spirits. 'I've Been Loved'. Opening of my survey exhibition, Diaries, State Library of NSW, William Yang, 1999". The Diaries exhibition was actually staged from 26 January to 26 April 1998 at the State Library of New South Wales.

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: William Yang
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Title taken from photograph inscription.

Copy: photoprint made 2022 from transparency/negative made 1998