I have uploaded a copy of a review I did in 2021 for the Theatre Heritage website on the 2019 book: The Falk Studios: The Theatrical Portrait Photography of H. Walter Barnett.
Click here for that article.
Since moving to Melbourne Paul and I have visited exhibitions of photography and other media. The list includes:
I have uploaded a piece about our visit to see the Anzac Days, the Colin Abbott exhibition at Magnet Galleries in Docklands, Melbourne.
Click here for the piece on our web site.
I have uploaded a page about the Women:s Art Register and their very handy publication Leaving Your Legacy: A Guide for Australian Artists.
The guide is a comprehensive starting point — and the organisation is definitely worth supporting. Click here.
The 1999 reader contains 33 essays selected by Blair French, who was then program manager for the Australian Centre for Photography.
The texts had been previously published in the Centre of Photography’s journal — Photofile — that had been published since 1983. I wrote the preface to this publication. There’s a table of contents below my online essay along with links to information about photofile and the ACP. Click here for my essay.
cover image: Tracey Moffatt, Up In The Sky #3 1997 (detail)
Have uploaded to our photo-web site a special section on the first photography curators — Australian that is. We have listed four: Jennie Boddington, Ian North, Gael Newton (me!), and Alan Davies. The listings for Jennie and myself include 1983 interviews by the Australian Centre of Photography. These are very long! (you have been warned)
If you know of any other useful online material on these people, please make contact.
This essay was originally published in the 2008 catalogue for the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition — click here.
For people interested in Australian CDVs, it is highly recommended that you get hold of the book that accompanied the 2018–1019 exhibition. Click here for a sample of the book
I was approached by Penny Grist of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra to advise on the 2017 exhibition — Starstruck. I then had the great experience of working with the co-curators Penny from the Portrait Gallery and Jenny Coombes of National Film and Sound Archive. This was a fun collaborative research experience — with my essay published in their book for the exhibition. Click here for the essay now online.
Paris Musées, the public institution that manages all of the museums in Paris, has launched a new Collections portal with the public access to more than 100,000 high-resolution digital reproductions of classic artwork and photography.
Click here for the article on DP Review — or here for the portal
above image: 61 rue Saint-Louis-en-l’Ile, enseigne “Au petit Bacchus”. Paris (IVème arrondissement). Photographie d’Eugène Atget (1857–1927). Paris, musée Carnavalet.
Great looking exhibition — get me to Canada
An exhibition organized by the Yokohama Museum of Art in collaboration with the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada.
Opening on 12 October 2018
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Continue reading William and Winfred Bowness Photography Prize
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click here for the TAP site — or here for the Spring 2017 details — that includes a link to a review by me.
from the listing:
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has revealed a visual of its new Photography Centre — click here
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?
There’s a small exhibition at the National gallery of Australia.
click on banner for link to information about this great group of Australian photographers
Toby Meagher’s Research Paper–June 2013. The paper was written for a Masters in Art Administration at COFA. Click here.
18 February — 17 April 2017 at State Library of New South Wales — click on image for the exhibition notice
Click on the image for the winners of the competition, CCP Salon.
The theme of FotoFocus 2016 is “The Un-Document,” and presents photography from over 100 international artists in 60 venues.
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.
Click on the image for the link to the 2016 Auckland Photography Festival
click on image above for the story about this very successful new national gallery.
Good news from Canada about photography — click on the image above
