Gael
Newton AM
Book review - EPOCH: Graham Howe's undergraduate photography Prahran College 1970 - 1971
On The Edge: Australian Photographers of the Seventies. 1995 Publication with essays by Gael Newton.
Generations: Australian Photography since the 1970s, Gael Newton 2002
Review: Falk Studios - The Theatrical Portrait Photography of H. Walter Barnett
Other Lives, Gael Newton - 2024 updatted mid 1990s article
First Generation: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Photographers 1998 (formerly unpublished)
gender, journeys and genres Published eyeline magazine 1994
The Movement of Women, Gael Newton 1996 (Art and Australia, Volume 33, No 1. Spring 1996)
Pictures In Print: A look at The Australian Situation – Past and Present (1979 essay)
Re-constructed Vision: Contemporary work with photography 25th July-23rd August, AGNSW 1981
The Camera Obscura and Photographic Vision - - 1987 paper by Gael Newton AM - with February 2022 notes
Preface for Photo Files - an australian photography reader: 1999 essay
Photography: Australia: After Dupain. 1996 essay published in London Magazine
Building
the Art Gallery of NSW photography
collection–The Sydney
Camera Circle arrives in a car-boot
(1978
Landscape
and Photographers: a
historical perspective (a 2004 paper)
Australian
Women Photographers:
1890-1950 - essay for 1980 catalogue
Self
Portrait: My comments
on the 1980s publication - Self-Portrait
/ Self-Image
Peter Adams' A Few of The Legends - my comments on Peter Adams' 2021 publication
A
Story of The Story: Correspondence between Jack Cato
and Keast Burke
additional 2025 Note: on the citations/ papers of Keast Burke - Jack Cato correspondence
Indecent
Exposures: Twenty
Years of Australian Feminist
Photography, Gael Newton, 1995 (Art
and Australia)
David
Moore William Street, Sydney, 1966, Gael Newton
Generations:
Australian Photography
since the 1970s, Gael Newton 2002
Australian
Pictorial Photography ~ Seeing The Light, essay from Truth Beauty exhibition
2008 Vancouver
Out
of Sight. R,Vere Scott and R. P.
Moore: Forgotten
Federation-Era Panoramic
Photographers - 2012
Curatorland:
Reflections On Building –
The NGA's Asia-Pacific Photography
Collection, Gael Newton, 2015
Tom
Roberts:
A Photo-Literate Generation -
catalogue essay, NGA exhibition, 2015
Spot
on: the art of film stills
photography,
1906-2001 - essay from Starstruck
exhibition 2017
Auction
Autopsy The Mossgreen Dupain
Estate Sales 2016-17 Gael Newton, June 2017
Auction
Postcript:
Mossgreen Dupain Estate Sales 2017,
Gael Newton July 2017
My Favourite Slide: The Cup that Cheers Gael Newton
From
the curator's crypt -
The Photographers' Party, 1978
The Photographer's Party 1978 - text for article in Australian Photography
Irreverence: a
gloss on the photograph and the
smile 1998 (includes
photos of myself by Max Dupain)
Interview
with Gael Newton, Lynette Letic, April 2014
Typewriters
I have known.. 2021
(based on earlier draft)
A
1983 Interview
with the Australian Centre of
Photography (very
long read)
Photographs we have collected (and still own) and some now housed within public collections
These are listed below in the general entries and also on a separate page for these essays
Includes essays on Axel Poignant, Wesley Stacey, Carol Eyerman, Ruth Bernhard, John Albok, Rod McNicol, Elaine Campaner, Klara Langer, E.B. Mowll, James Jameson, Dorothy Warner, Robert McFarlane, John Williams, Polixeni Papapetrou, Jack Cato.
Garden of The East: Photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s (2025 online version of 2014 catalogue)
Picture
Paradise : Asia - Pacific Photography
1840s-1940s (2025 online version of 2008 catalogue)
Travels with Indonesian Photography: 2025 revised version of a 2022 essay.
Loke Hong Seng (born 1943, Singapore photographer), essay for 2015 Catalogue, Yo Workshop Singapore.
Oceania: from Melbourne to Papeete, 19th Century Pacific Photography survey, Gael Newton, 2019
Hélène Hoppenot and 1930s women modernist photographers in Southeast Asia, published 2024
Port
Cities article 2016: Getting
into the picture: Photographers and their customers
in the port cities Goa to Manila,
1840-1900
Two
2008 entries originally published in‘National
Surveys: Southeast Asia’ in Encyclopedia
of Nineteenth-Century
Photography, Editor John
Hannavy, Routledge: South-East
Asia 19th C Photography: Malaya,
Singapore, and Philippines and
Southeast Asia 19th Century Photography: Thailand,
Burma, and IndoChina (Cambodia,
Vietnam, Laos)
Trans
Asia Photography Review:
Gael Newton reviews the Spring 2015
issue - Volume 43 of Ars
Orientalis, a peer-reviewed
annual journal based on the
Smithsonian Institution’s Freer
Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery (F|S) collections of Asian Art
and their related archives and
research programs.
Contemporary
Singapore Photography, A Survey, 2011
Local
heroes of early photography in Asia
and the Pacific.
Royal
Court Photography:
From the NGA's Picture Paradise
Exhibition, 2008
Princes,
Portraits andPanoramas – Garden of the East: photography in
Indonesia 1850s-1940s
Shapoor
N Bhedwar The
Naver—invocation
The
Hoffotograaf: Portrait
Photographer to Indonesian Royalty:
Gael Newton, TAASA Review, March 2014
Camera Chic: fusion of East West influences in early Asian portraits - 2017 TAASA presentation
Natural
Causes: Landscape photographs by Ansel
Adams and Eliot
Porter – In the
balance: Black & White and Colour
John Albok, Rainy Day Madison Avenue, (New York City streets from 1920s to 1980.) (On Our Collections)
Ruth Bernhard What a doll.. Gael Newton, December 2024 (On Our Collections)
Anton Bruehl: In The Spotlight - publication for the
National Gallery of Australia exhibition
Anton Bruehl: The
Anton Bruehl Junior gift to the
National Gallery of Australia
Elaine Campaner (1969 – 2020) In memory of Elaine and her wonderful photographic artworks, Gael Newton June 2022
Elaine Campaner (1969-2020) Lake 2017 (from the exhibition series, Petri Dish) (On Our Collections)
Jack Cato - special set of pages on Jack Cato
Jack Cato: essay on Jack Cato's Hoddle Bridge, Melbourne early 1940s, Gael Newton October 2025
Jack Cato: short essay on Jack Cato's characters Gael Newton July 2024
Jack Cato:
1889 - 1971. Entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography
John Cato & Jack Cato: Generations,
1996 Exhibition catalogue essay, Gael
Newton, click here
A Story of the Storey: Correspondence between Jack Cato and Keast Burke, Gael
Newton 1986
originally published in the Australian Centre for Photography's Photofile, Autumn 1986
Harold
Cazneaux 1878-1953
an exhibition at the AGNSW 30 August
- 28 September 1975
Behind
the glass: the story
of Olive Cotton's
classic Max after surfing, 1937
Olive Cotton, Max
in the Shadows, c1935 (NGA
Acquisitions 1999)
R
A Cunnigham's
Australian Aboriginal international
touring company
Art
and Documentary: Photographic
Biculturalism? (Domenic M. Cozzolino)
2005
Spell
O! (Richard Daintree and the Australian image), published
1992
The
Bounding Box: Essay on Malita Dahl's photographs, June 2021
Reflected
Light and Photographic Images,
Ian DeGruchy/Dennis Del Favero, 1994
Peter
Dombrovskis: Simply - Time, Place
and Exposure: Understanding Peter
Dombrovskis, 2006
Max Dupain: The Max a 2025 revised version of a draft sent to a magazine around 1993
MAX
DUPAIN: Click
here for the web page with links to essays and resources on Max Dupain
Carol Eyerman & Port of Embarkation c.1950 Gael Newton, (On Our Collections)
Shinzo Fukuhara
Japan 1883 – 1948
Fiona
Hall: Retro-Spect
Leura's Theme
E
O Hoppé, Fame,
Fortune and the Fifth Continent
James Jameson (photo of an Ayah [Indian nanny] and two children) Edinburgh circa 1866-84 (On Our Collections)
Carol Jerrems, Hair 1970 - essay Gael Newton 2012
Carol Jerrems, A Book of Australian Women 1974 - essay Gael Newton 2005,
John Kauffmann:
1864 - 1942. Entry
in the Australian Dictionary of
Biography
John
Kauffmann: 1864
- 1942, Art Photographer (1980
essay from The Australasian Antique
Collector)
Yousuf Karsh & Athol Shmith: the
good, the great & the
gifted–Camera Portraits
The
River of Faces - exhibition 2018
- Mark Kimber
Klara Langer 1912-1973, Hungary: Untitled fun 'Table Top' commercial photograph (On Our Collections)
Reproduction: Rosemary Laing &
Matthys Gerber
J
W Lindt,
Coontajandra and Sanginguble,
Central Australian Aboriginals
In
Search of the Native:
Photographs by Max Dupain and Eduardo Masferre and their contemporaries
Robert McFarlane Celebrated
Australian photographer
Robert McFarlane Swan Lake 2006
Robert McFarlane:Crowd lining the street on Anzac Day at Martin Place, Sydney, 1964 (Gael Newton 2024)
Robert McFarlane A country couple on the top deck of a bus about to cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge 1964
(Gael Newton 2024) (on Our Collections)
Robert McFarlane, Obituary, 14 August 2023, Memorial Adelaide Gael Newton
Robert McFarlane: A special page with links and essays about Robert McFarlane
Rod McNicol, The Roses 2024 (on Our Collections)
Tracey Moffatt: Invocations (2001)
Tracey Moffatt: The memory theatre of Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt: Cover Girl (Essay in Fever Pitch 1995)
Tracey
Moffatt: See the woman with the red dress on
... and on ... and on (Essay in
Art and Asia Pacific 1994)
David Moore: The Spread of Time (pdf)
David Moore –
Reflections: Cycling, Herne
Hill, UK
Yasumasa Morimura,
Dress from the Guest Artist series
Autumn-Winter 1996-97, (NGA
Acquisitions 1999)
Lewis Morley: The
Mirrored World of Lewis Morley 2011
E. B. Mowll: The portrait is striking in its sophistication and import. C1880s (On Our Collections)
Polixeni Papapetrou - a special page with links
Polixeni Papapetrou - 2025 Gael newton essay - The Wimmera 1864 # 1
Axel Poignant:
photographs 1922-1980, Gael
Newton1982
Axel Poignant, Mount Warning 1953 (on Our Collections)
Axel
Poignant, The Swagman 1954 - an Australian Icon. Gael Newton 2025
with more links on special page for Axel Poignant
Michael Riley: Sights
Unseen, essay for the exhibition
at the National Gallery of Australia
2006
Michael Riley Kristina
1986
Going
to Extremes: George Silk, Photojournalist (from the NGA
exhibition catalogue)
Going
to extremes: George Silk photographer
essay in Art & Australia Vol 38 No
1 200)
George Silk, Fawn and rainbow trout, tributary
of the Madison River, Montana,
(NGA Acquisitions 1999)
The sculptural afterlife of an iconic 1942 New Guinea photograph by George Silk
Mark Strizic: In
and Out of Focus by Gael Newton,
December 2017(located on
Portrait Gallery website
Dorothy Warner Adelaide 1890-1969 (on Our Collections)
John
F Williams: a
photo/ history, 2004
John F Williams, Clovelly 1964 Gael Newton, May 2025 (On Our Collections)
Walter Woodbury:
1834 – 1885
Walter
B Woodbury Entrepreneur, Inventor: Woodbury in
Indonesia, essay 2014
Wesley Stacey, exhibition at Gallery 4A, National Gallery of Australia, 23 February – 12 May 1991
Vale Wesley Stacey: Born 1941 - died 9th Frebuary 2023. A tribute March 2023
Wesley Stacey: The Hermitage Panoramas – Two photographs by Wesley Stacey, Australia 1941-2023
Daisy Wu - All Quiet on the Western Front 1955 (on Our Collections)
Shades
of Light:
Photography and Australia
1839-1988
Silver
and Grey: fifty
years of Australian photography 1900
- 1950
Australian
Pictorial Photography
Picture
Paradise 2008: Asia - Pacific Photography
1840s-1940s (2025 online version)
2014: Garden
of the East: Photography of Indonesia 1850s -
1940s
2008: Picture
Paradise: Asia - Pacific Photography
1840s-1940s
Exhibition
Review
by Doug Hall 2008: Old
Pictures Afresh: a
review of Picture Paradise.
Building
a curriculum: suggestions for books on Asia Pacific
Art
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