James McArdle has uploaded a brilliant piece on Helen Ennis’ thought provoking presentation at the Museum of Australian Photography’s launch of the book — The Basement — the photography from Prahran College. Click here.
Helen Ennis Unfixing
Category Archives: photo-exhibitions
On The Edge
Australian photographers of the Seventies
With the new interest in 1970s Australian photography, I remembered this exhibition that went to San Diego in 1995. Click here for my piece on this.
Epoch: Graham Howe 1970–1971
PhotoBook introduction and review
I have written a piece online to introduce Graham Howe’s new book, EPOCH, that features Graham Howe’s photography from his Prahran College years 1970–1971. Click here for the review.
Carol Jerrems
Updating our online information
We have updated the information on our website on Carol Jerrems. Loads of links.
Gibson’s Auction August 2024
The treat of auction exhibitions
Since moving to Melbourne Paul and I have visited exhibitions of photography and other media. The list includes:
John Albok
On Our Collections
A wonderful photograph by New York photographer, John Albok (1894–1982)
Another cherished photograph that sits on our walls in our Melbourne home.
More on this photograph — click here.
Elaine Campaner, The Lake 2017 Copy
On Our Collections
A much loved work by Elaine Campaner (1969–2020) that has just taken pride of place on our walls in our new home in Melbourne. More on this work — click here.
Rod McNicol, The Roses 2024
On Our Collections
When we moved, we dispersed some of our collections and said to ourselves that we should not buy any more. Then we saw this wonderful new work by Rod McNicol.
A previous notice for this was posted on Facebook — but their algorithm removed it. We have a theory. Click here for the original piece on our website
Elaine Campaner, The Lake 2017
On Our Collections
A much loved work by Elaine Campaner (1969–2020) that has just taken pride of place on our walls in our new home in Melbourne. More on this work — click here.
Anzac Days — Colin Abbott
Magnet Galleries Exhibition
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.
Gender journey and genres 1994
revisiting my archive
The current national and international attention on women artists prompted me to plumb my archive where I found this 1994 commentary on the status of women in photography.
Picture in Print 1976 & 2022
Australian Photo-History Publications
I have unearthed an essay from 1976 which was a commentary about photo-history books available at the time.
Re-constructed Vision
Contemporary work with photography 25th July-23rd August, 1981
Over the recent years I have been searching through my archives for articles and essays that we have since published on our web-site. I had overlooked one exhibition. That was the 1981 Project Gallery exhibition Re-constructed Vision: Contemporary work with photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
It is now uploaded to our web site.
Parting with Your Art ~ November 2021
An update on parting with my archives
Updated November 2021
Have uploaded more to Parting with Your Art — click here.
This new page is an update on my most recent experiences on parting with my own archive as well as some thoughts that may be useful to others dealing with these downsizing matters
For the full list of pages so far: Click here
Curators and Photography
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.
Australian Pictorial Photography ~ Seeing The Light
Essay from Truth Beauty 2008
This essay was originally published in the 2008 catalogue for the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition — click here.
CARTE-O-MANIA
National Portrait Gallery Canberra 2018–19 exhibition
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
Spot On
the art of film stills photography, 1906–2001
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.
Michael Riley
The elders: Indigenous photography in Australia
The wonders of looking through your own archive. I realised I had not uploaded an essay from 2006 on Michael Riley. Have now — so here’s the link — click here.
Parting with Your Art ~ June 2021
Large Collections and Managing Expectations
Updated June 2021 Have uploaded more to Parting with Your Art — click here.
This page is about managing expectations, large collections, institutional collection policies, points for collectors approaching art museums and archives, recommended first steps — and more..
For the full list of pages so far: Click here
Melita Dahl Portrait 2021
An essay for Melita Dahl’s exhibition at PhotoAccess
Contributed an essay for Melita Dahl’s June 2021 exhibition at PhotoAcccess in Canberra. The exhibition is open until 10 July 2021.
Updating Parting with Your Art ~ April 2021
More Pages about Parting with Your Art
Updated April 2021
topics: Downsizing Collections; More on Capital Gains Tax; Finding new homes for my library. Have uploaded these new pages to Parting with Your Art — click here.
introducing Parting with Your Art
Pages about Parting with Your Art
Updated 12 August 2020
Have uploaded new pages on Parting with Your Art — click here.
parting with your art
watch this space
Will be writing up some experiences and thoughts about parting with your art. This will be based on my own experiences as well as many stories heard in recent years.
thousands of historic photographs online
Paris Musées launches online photography
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.
Walter Woodbury
Entrepreneur, Inventor: Woodbury in Indonesia
I have uploaded a small essay I wrote in 2014 about Walter Woodbury in Indonesia. This essay was linked to the exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia — Garden of the East: photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s. Click here for my essay online.
There’s also another small essay online that relates to a photograph — the one above — titled Serimpies, or dancing girls of the Sultano c.1858 . Click here for that essay.
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For the list of my essays (being updated) click here
Photojournalism by Jessica Lange
The Guardian online presentation
Highway 61 revisited — photographs of this historic route. Click here
20th-century Japanese photography
Hanran
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.
Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography
October 11, 2019 to Sunday, March 22, 2020
October 11, 2019 to Sunday, March 22, 2020
Click here for the link to the exhibition page — with images at the bottom of the page that can be enlarged..
George Silk
George Silk, Photojournalist
I have several essays online relating to George Silk the photojournalist. Born in Levin, New Zealand in 1916, Silk served as a photojournalist for Life Magazine for 30 years.
He is well known as a war photographer, that part of his career began in 1939 serving for the Australian government in the Middle East, North Africa and Greece.
There are many other aspects of his achievements covered in my essays. Most of my research related to the exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in 2000.
Here are the links to my essays:
Going to Extremes: George Silk, Photojournalist from the NGA exhibition catalogue
Going to extremes: George Silk photographer essay in Art & Australia
George Silk,Fawn and rainbow trout, tributary of the Madison River, Montana
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For the list of my essays (being updated) click here
Curatorland
Writing in the Rain, FX Harsono - Still from colour video 2011 Collection National Gallery of Australia
Following my leaving the National Gallery in September 2014, I was asked by the editor of the Journal of the Asian Arts Society Australia to write about my last decade at the gallery — the decade that saw the establishment of a survey collection of Asia-Pacific photography spanning from South Asia to the west coast of the Americas.
The new collection was largely based around major collections acquired from several major private collections of Asia-Pacific photography including one of some 5000 colonial-era Indonesian photographs.
Here’s that story — click here
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For the list of my other essays (being updated) click here
Australian Photography since the 1970s
Michael Riley’s Cloud (2000)
Generations: Australian Photography since the 1970s
This essay was originally published in the catalogue Photographica Australis
for the 2002 exhibition by the Australian Centre of Photography
Curated by Alasdair Foster. Click here
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For the list of my essays (being updated) click here
Axel Poignant
I have uploaded an online version of the catalogue for the 1982 retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW — Axel Poignant, photographs 1922–1980. Click here.
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For the list of my essays (being updated) click here
A quiet celebration here today
Member of the Order of Australia
I have many people to thank for their support over a career that I continue to enjoy.
V&A Photographic Centre
Photographic Centre opening date announced
Opening on 12 October 2018
Bill Henson
Exhibition notice
Bill Henson at the Tolarno Galleries 104 Exhibition Street Melbourne
till 2 June 2018.
Frank Hurley at Manly Art Gallery and Museum
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Harold Edgerton at the Whitney
An exhibition notice for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Click here for the link…
And for more on Harold Edgerton — see my 1999 paper for the catalogue at the National Gallery of Australia — click here.
Thai photography
https://www.facebook.com/theARTMUSEum.PaulCostigan/posts/635188293479667
Frank Hurley at Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Click on the image for more on this exhibition
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2018
Celebrating a Pioneer of Australian Photojournalism
Celebrating IWD — 8th March 2018
Adelie Hurley (1919–2010) - The first Australian female commercial photojournalist
Frank Hurley at Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Frank Hurley: From Circular Quay to Collaroy Plateau.
Mossgreen Auction — SMH photographs
AUCTION: Sydney Morning Herald
Vintage Photography Collection, Part 1
The Unflinching Gaze
https://www.facebook.com/gael.newton/posts/10155960821949551
Peter Dombrovskis
Peter Dombrovskis — Journeys into the wild.
Sasha Grishin reviews National Library of Australia (Canberra) 2018 exhibition: Peter Dombrovskis — Journeys into the wild.
William and Winfred Bowness Photography Prize
the 2017 announced: winner: Polixeni Papapetrou
Continue reading William and Winfred Bowness Photography Prize
Andre Kertesz photographs
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Lee Fook Chee
https://www.facebook.com/theARTMUSEum.PaulCostigan/posts/529237530741411
Max Dupain auctions Postscript
A Postscript to my AUCTION AUTOPSY:
The Mossgreen Dupain Sales 2016–17
click here to see my postscript on my former report on these significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
Max Dupain auctions
AUCTION AUTOPSY: The Mossgreen Dupain Estate Sales 2016–17
click here to see my report on these significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
V&A photographic centre
designs for new V&A Photography Centre
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has revealed a visual of its new Photography Centre — click here
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
MGA Call for entries
Entries now invited
Continue reading William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
Anne Zahalka in Albury
Exhibition: The Landscape Revisited
Anne Zahalka’s new exhibition at the city gallery in Albury- MAMA — till Sunday 5th November 2017
Frank Hurley & Australian Native Plants
INFORMATION CALL-OUT: FRANK HURLEY
Searching for Frank Hurley along our northern beaches
Did you know that Frank Hurley was a very keen gardener and photographer of wild flowers?
The Photography Room: May — June 2017
3 New Exhibitions at The Photography Room
Dörte Conroy — What Comes to Mind: Lorna Sim — Enigma:
Maurice Weidmann- Absence of Sunshine
Continue reading The Photography Room: May — June 2017
Regis Lansac
Head On Photography Exhibition
Exhibition of Regis Lansac’s photographs at Janet Clayton Gallery:
3–28 May 2017
NGA Photography
19thC photography in Japan
There’s a small exhibition at the National gallery of Australia.
Ballarat Foto Biennale — Portrait Prize
Martin Kantor Portrait Prize Entry
Applications close: 31st May 2017
click on image for more.…
Planetary Gardening at photoaccess
Review by Peter Haynes
Curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean — click on image.
Planetary Gardening at photoaccess
This is an exhibition at photoaccess (Canberra) curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean.
Wesley Stacey at the MGA
Exhibition: Wesley Stacey — The Wild Thing
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.
National Museum of Norway, photography
Documentary and portrait photography
National Museum in Norway exhibition on documentary and portrait photography.
Jane Brown at Stills Gallery
Exhibition: Jane Brown — Sporting Country
One to see — exhibition at Stills Gallery of Jane Brown’s photographs — Sporting Country.
Sean Davey at The Photography Room
Exhibition: Sean Davey — Solomon Islands
At The Photography Room in Kingston (Canberra) is the exhibition by Sean Davey — Solomon Islands (2016).
Wes Stacey
Australian Centre for Photography
Ansel Adam’s ‘Museum Set’ exhibition
North Carolina Museum of Art exhibition notice
click on image for the news of the exhibition of Ansel Adam’s ‘Museum Set’ — chosen by him to best represent his work.
Wesley Stacey
Exhibition notice: The Wild Thing
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.
photography at Stills
Notice: Group Exhibition at Stills Gallery, Sydney
2 February — 4 March 2017 — click on image for images
Australian Centre for Photography
Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker
18 February — 17 April 2017 at State Library of New South Wales — click on image for the exhibition notice
photography
photography fair San Francisco 2017
Images from PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco — click on the image above.
Contemporary photography is alive and well!
Photography exhibition
Vertical No Limit: mountain photography
Musée de l’Elysée (Switzerland) till 30 April 2017 (click on image above)
photography
ArtBlat Review: Surveillance
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (click on image for review)
Joel Sternfeld
Exhibition: Colour photographs 1977–1988
Beetles+Huxley (London) till 18 February 2017
photofair San Francisco
John Schott
Exhibition notice: Route 66 by John Schott at Joseph Bowers Gallery
Click on the image for news on ArtDaily.
After Baldus: Travels in a Wounded Landscape
photography at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Click on the image for the link to the exhibition by Theo Baart and Cary Markerink
The Photography Show NY 2017
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Werner Bischof
The Hague Museum of Photography celebrates Werner Bischof
FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1970s
till 29 Jan 2017 — Photographers Gallery London — click on image above
on Art Blat
Exhibition: ‘Lewis Baltz NEVADA’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California
Athol Shmith
Photography exhibition at the National Library Canberra
click on image for information on this small exhibition
Brett Weston at the Bruce Museum
Towards Abstraction, 1940–1985: Brett Weston
click on the image for the link to the Bruce Museum
Brassaï at the Pompidou Centre
an exhibition to the Graffiti series by Brassaï
Click on image above for link to exhibition notice on Artdaily.
photography
photography at the CCP Melbourne
Click on the image for the winners of the competition, CCP Salon.
Nassau County and the art of photography
Nassau County Museum of Arts devotes all galleries to the art of photography
Click here for the article on artdaily.
Prada Foundation moves into photography
Anne Shelton
Ann Shelton opens at Auckland Art Gallery
click on image for news about the photography exhibition 26 Nov 2016–17 April 2017
Film Stills at The Albertina
Film Stills photography exhibition in Vienna
from the museum site:
2016 FotoFocus Biennial
Photography Biennial, Cincinnati, 2016
The theme of FotoFocus 2016 is “The Un-Document,” and presents photography from over 100 international artists in 60 venues.
19th Century Vegetable Photographer
Photography: Relics of Old London
Yale Centre for British Art, 2016
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.
National Galleries of Scotland’s photography
The View from Here, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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
Institute for Photography in Scotland
Great program for late 2016
check it out… click on the image above
Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh, Museum of Machines
The MAST Foundation in Bologna is presenting for the first time in Italy a major solo exhibition of contemporary photographs by Dayanita Singh.
Robyn Stacey
Dark Wonder, Stills Gallery Sydney
Click on the image for the review by Lenny Ann Low in the Fairfax news.
Exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery
The Image in Question at Michael Hoppen Gallery
click on the image for the link to the exhibition and
Harold Cazneaux Exhibition
Harold Cazneaux at the Australian national Maritime Museum
Polixeni Papapetrou
Featured photographer/artist
Click on the image above for the link to Polixeni’s web site and..
Valerie Sparks
Valerie Sparks wins Bowness
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