Self portrait
Australia
1949 – 1980
Self portrait
from the series Hospital
1979
gelatin-silver photograph
- Place made
- Hobart
- Medium
- gelatin-silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 23.9 x 15.8 cm (image)
- Credit line
- Maurice A. Clarke Bequest Fund 2013
- Accession number
- 20134Ph86
- Signature and date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Media category
- Photograph
- Collection area
- Australian Photographs
- Copyright
- © Estate of Carol Jerrems
- Image credit
- Photo: AGSA
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WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016
In 1979 Jerrems moved to Hobart to teach at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. That year she became critically ill and was eventually diagnosed with Budd-Chiari syndrome, a rare condition affecting the liver. She spent several painful and uncertain months in hospital, but continued to take photographs from her hospital ward, including unflinching self-portraits, such as this one, which document her physical decline.
While in hospital she sent her rolls of film to her friend and fellow photographer Roger Scott in Sydney for processing and printing. In late 1979 Jerrems moved back to Melbourne, where she died in February 1980, three weeks before her thirty-first birthday.
Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs
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Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography
Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016
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Carol Jerrems 1949 – 1980gelatin-silver photographAccession no: 20134Ph85
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Carol Jerrems 1949 – 1980
Self portrait
1979gelatin-silver photographAccession no: 20134Ph86