Anne Zahalka (born 1957)

The Bathers, 1989

from the series Bondi: Playground of the Pacific

printed 2024
type C photograph

75.0 x 90.0 cm (image)
103.0 x 115.0 cm (frame)

signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title verso: The Bathers, 1989 / Edition 18/20 / printed 2024 / A Zahalka

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Company collection, Sydney

Bondi: Playground of the Pacific, Bondi Pavillion Gallery, Sydney, 12 – 24 December 1989 (another example)
Anne Zahalka, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 March – 2 May 2007 (another example)
Collective Identity (IeS): This Is That Time, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 13 September – 17 November 2013 (another example)
On The Beach, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 11 December 2015 – 28 February 2016 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue)
LEGACY. Your collection. Our story., Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne, 15 June – 19 September 2018 (another example)
ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne, 10 June – 10 September 2023, and touring (another example)

Williams, D. and Simon, C., ART NOW Contemporary Art Post 1970, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Sydney, 1994, fig. 2.9, p. 32 (illus., another example)
French, B., and Palmer, D., Twelve Australian Photo Artists, Piper Press, Sydney, 2009, p. 184 (illus., another example)

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne
Phizacklea, A., et. al., ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist's archive, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne, 2023, pp. 56, 58 (illus., another example), 59 (illus., another example), 204

This work was reproduced as an Australia Post stamp on 24 March 2026