Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell’s photographs shaped AustraliaFor nearly 100 years, E.L. Mitchell’s emblematic photographs have shaped ideas about Australia.
But who was Mitchell and why did he succeed above his competitors?
Entries now invited
Continue reading William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
Anne Zahalka’s new exhibition at the city gallery in Albury- MAMA — till Sunday 5th November 2017
Curtain Call at Stills Gallery Sydney
Here at photographs of the opening of the final Stills Gallery exhibition — Curtin Call
INFORMATION CALL-OUT: FRANK HURLEYSearching for Frank Hurley along our northern beaches
Did you know that Frank Hurley was a very keen gardener and photographer of wild flowers?
Still have given notice of their final exhibition.
With Curtain Call, Stills Gallery is looking back over the history of the gallery and presents the mother of all salon hangs featuring over 70 artists from over the 26 years of exhibitions including:
Dörte Conroy — What Comes to Mind: Lorna Sim — Enigma:
Maurice Weidmann- Absence of Sunshine
Continue reading The Photography Room: May — June 2017
Click on the image above to see a new research paper by Belinda Hungerford that has been uploaded to photoweb.
A new research book has been published by the National Gallery of Singapore. It contains essays on Southeast Asian art by 25 scholars.
I was given the honour by the NGS of being one the contributing scholars.
The book is available from the NGS shop and through their website — click here.
Exhibition of Regis Lansac’s photographs at Janet Clayton Gallery:
3–28 May 2017
There’s a small exhibition at the National gallery of Australia.
Back in 1996, Philip Bentley, Melbourne historian, wrote a thesis on the history of the Melbourne photographers, Group M.
Martin Kantor Portrait Prize EntryApplications close: 31st May 2017
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click on image for details — entries close 26 July 2017
Curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean — click on image.
click on banner for link to information about this great group of Australian photographers
This is an exhibition at photoaccess (Canberra) curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean.
George W Bell photographer (1920 — 2008) was member of Group M — in Melbourne.
Exhibition of 40 years of photographs by Wesley Stacey at the Monash Gallery of Art, 4th March — 28 April 2017 — click here for pictures of the opening and other comments.
click on the banner above for a link to information on Harold Cazneaux and lists of rare photographs now for sale.
One to see — exhibition at Stills Gallery of Jane Brown’s photographs — Sporting Country.
At The Photography Room in Kingston (Canberra) is the exhibition by Sean Davey — Solomon Islands (2016).
Re-staging the first photographic exhibition..
click on image for the news of the exhibition of Ansel Adam’s ‘Museum Set’ — chosen by him to best represent his work.
Toby Meagher’s Research Paper–June 2013. The paper was written for a Masters in Art Administration at COFA. Click here.
Click on the image for the story on Artsy — about Frederick Douglass and his love and use of photography. “How Frederick Douglass Harnessed the Power of Portraiture to Reframe Blackness in America”
Exhibition of 40 years of photographs by Wesley Stacey at the Monash Gallery of Art, 4th March — 28 April 2017 — click here for details.
For more on Wesley — click here.
2 February — 4 March 2017 — click on image for images
18 February — 17 April 2017 at State Library of New South Wales — click on image for the exhibition notice
Images from PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco — click on the image above.
Contemporary photography is alive and well!
click on the image for the storyMartin Parr
Musée de l’Elysée (Switzerland) till 30 April 2017 (click on image above)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (click on image for review)
Beetles+Huxley (London) till 18 February 2017
Click on the image for news on ArtDaily.
click on the image for a story about photography sales
Click on the image for the link to the exhibition by Theo Baart and Cary Markerink
till 29 Jan 2017 — Photographers Gallery London — click on image above
click on image for Straits Times news notice — or here for the museum link
click on image for news on exhibition — or here to link to ACM
click on image for information on this small exhibition
click on the image for the link to the Bruce Museum
Click on image above for link to exhibition notice on Artdaily.
Click on the image for the winners of the competition, CCP Salon.
Click here for the article on artdaily.
click on the image above for The Guardian story on Elton John’s collection
click on image for news about the photography exhibition 26 Nov 2016–17 April 2017
from the museum site:
The theme of FotoFocus 2016 is “The Un-Document,” and presents photography from over 100 international artists in 60 venues.
From the gallery: This exhibition offered a glimpse of the lost architecture of preindustrial London, as captured in a series of carbon photoprints commissioned between 1875 and 1886 by the short-lived Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London.
The View from Here, brings together 70 key works that chart the history of landscape photography over the course of 175 years. click here for more.
Exhibition runs 29th October 2016 − 30th April 2017 — click here for the gallery site
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The MAST Foundation in Bologna is presenting for the first time in Italy a major solo exhibition of contemporary photographs by Dayanita Singh.
click on the image for the story from The Art Newspaper
An update on the move of the Royal Photography Society’s collection to the V&A — and the V&A as a centre for photography. click here.
Image linked from a site by Amy Dickinson — click here
Click on the image for the review by Lenny Ann Low in the Fairfax news.
click here — for a story on the presence of females amongst the abstract expressionists.
click on image for more on the Christie’s Photographs sales October 2016
click on the image for the link to the exhibition and
Click on the image above for the link to Polixeni’s web site and..
The September 2016 issue of Artlink is available. Click on image for more
The Monash Gallery of Art has announced that Melbourne artist Valerie Sparks has won the 2016 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize with her work ‘Prospero’s Island – North East’ featuring one of Australia’s most iconic landscapes.
Click here for a link to the artist’s website.
Click here for the link to Monash Gallery of Art
click here for the story on Art Daily – or here for the Harry Ransom Centre’s page
We recently heard of the death of a great Australian photographer. Click here to see an essay on John from 2004.
click on the image for the story about the exhibition of William Eggleston
While we often celebrate wood and things made out of such ‘natural’ products — it is good to reminded just where that all that wood came from and wonder whether we will see such beauty again.
Click on the image for the link to the 2016 Auckland Photography Festival
click on the image for the new series, Stardust, by Anna Carey.
Photography is alive and very well -
Click on the image to see the 2016 series by Michael Cook — Mother.
Tonight was the successful launch of the exhibition of the vintage photographs by Harold Cazneaux.
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Click on image for the exhibition details at China In The World (ANU)
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