Stay Afloat, Use a Rubber
- Object:
Photograph
- Place of origin:
London (made)
- Date:
1993 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Flash, Lola, born 1959 (photographer)
- Materials and Techniques:
C-type colour print. Cross colour photography - this technique prints the image in a negative or reversed colour so, for example, blue is printed as red.
- Museum number:
E.2940-1995
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level F, case X, shelf 932, box A
Physical description
A cross colour photograph depicting two men, wearing swimsuits, sitting in rubber rings, floating in a pool.
Place of Origin
London (made)
Date
1993 (made)
Artist/maker
Flash, Lola, born 1959 (photographer)
Materials and Techniques
C-type colour print. Cross colour photography - this technique prints the image in a negative or reversed colour so, for example, blue is printed as red.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed in silver marker 'Lola Flash'.
Dimensions
Height: 40.5 cm, Width: 50.9 cm
Object history note
Descriptive line
Photograph by Lola Flash, 'Stay Afloat, Use a Rubber', C-type colour print, London, 1993
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1995
Materials
Photographic paper
Techniques
C-type
Subjects depicted
Men; Sex; Swimsuits; Safe sex; Gay; Swimming pool; Homosexuality
Categories
Photographs; Health; Gender and Sexuality
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
