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café for Pride Week in 1974. The photographs depict transgender women, and the white paper around the images were inscribed with short texts by a friend of Clark's, including phrases such as 'Aren’t you furious you hung up closet queens' and 'How many of you boys would like to suck these tits or have
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all was well for the two first weeks until the Mayor of New
Plymouth Denis Sutherland told the gallery to remove the two Clark photographs. The Mayor claimed he had no problem with the photographs, only the captions. The police had already inspected the works and had taken no further action but a
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photographers, originated by the
Manawatu Art Gallery in Palmerston North and touring to other galleries around New Zealand. The exhibition was one of the first to focus on contemporary photography in New Zealand, and attracted considerable controversy around the works included by artist
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by photographer Fiona Clark included in the exhibition raised objections from local authorities, members of the public and the police were removed from the exhibition during its tour. The two black and white images were from a series of ten images, taken by Clark at a dance party at the
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made it clear the captions were not to be covered the two works were removed and placed in the
Directors office where they could be seen on request. Some people took up the offer to view the works. Acting Director
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in Lower Hutt, side-stepped the issue by having the work shown at the
Settlement café and art gallery in nearby Wellington. However on arrival the two works by Fiona Clark were found to have gone missing.
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marked an important point in photography's acceptance as a contemporary art form in New
Zealand. In the mid 1970s few New Zealand public art galleries collected or showed contemporary photography.
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