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.
papers, articles, research, articles
The Art of great window display
Harold Cazneaux
Harold Cazneaux photographs for sale
click on the banner above for a link to information on Harold Cazneaux and lists of rare photographs now for sale.
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
Photo London 2017
Mat Collishaw – Thresholds
Re-staging the first photographic exhibition..
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.
photography history
A History of the Australian Centre for Photography 1973–2013
Toby Meagher’s Research Paper–June 2013. The paper was written for a Masters in Art Administration at COFA. Click here.
photography
The most photographed person in the 19th Century
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”
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
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photography fair San Francisco 2017
Images from PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco — click on the image above.
Contemporary photography is alive and well!
Martin Parr
award for Outstanding Contribution to Photography
click on the image for the storyMartin Parr
papers, articles, research, articles
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
ICP Infinity Awards
John Schott
Exhibition notice: Route 66 by John Schott at Joseph Bowers Gallery
Click on the image for news on ArtDaily.
Photography sales
click on the image for a story about photography sales
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
Asian Civilisation Museum
Port Cities Exhibition
click on image for Straits Times news notice — or here for the museum link
Asian Civilisation Museum
Myanmar’s treasures on display at ACM, Singapore
click on image for news on exhibition — or here to link to ACM
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
papers, articles, research, articles
Dina Goldstein
Sir Elton John’s photography collection
Elton John on his photography collection
click on the image above for The Guardian story on Elton John’s collection
Anne Shelton
Ann Shelton opens at Auckland Art Gallery
click on image for news about the photography exhibition 26 Nov 2016–17 April 2017
Singapore Biennale 2016
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
papers, articles, research, articles
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.
photography auction
news on New York photography auctions
click on the image for the story from The Art Newspaper
photography and the V&A
The V&A as a centre for photography
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.
A creature from our worst nightmare
Image linked from a site by Amy Dickinson — click here
Robyn Stacey
Dark Wonder, Stills Gallery Sydney
Click on the image for the review by Lenny Ann Low in the Fairfax news.
Female Abstract Expressionists
Yes they were there
click here — for a story on the presence of females amongst the abstract expressionists.
Christie’s photographs sales October 2016
click on image for more on the Christie’s Photographs sales October 2016
Exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery
The Image in Question at Michael Hoppen Gallery
click on the image for the link to the exhibition and
Trent Parke Avenue of Honour
Trent Parke’s Avenue of Honour at the Australian War Memorial
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..
Artlink Art Land
September 2016 issue of Artlink
The September 2016 issue of Artlink is available. Click on image for more
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
Elliott Erwitt’s life and work
click here for the story on Art Daily – or here for the Harry Ransom Centre’s page
John F Williams 1933–2016
We recently heard of the death of a great Australian photographer. Click here to see an essay on John from 2004.
photography at the V&A
Portraits of William Eggleston
click on the image for the story about the exhibition of William Eggleston
The Big Tree
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.
Auckland Photography Festival
Click on the image for the link to the 2016 Auckland Photography Festival
Anna Carey
click on the image for the new series, Stardust, by Anna Carey.
photography
Photography is alive and very well -
Michael Cook
Click on the image to see the 2016 series by Michael Cook — Mother.
Harold Cazneaux photographs for sale
Tonight was the successful launch of the exhibition of the vintage photographs by Harold Cazneaux.
Rediscovering Cazneaux
click on image for the link to the Daily Telegraph
Harold Cazneaux exhibition
Wei Leng Tay—The Other Shore
Click on image for the exhibition details at China In The World (ANU)
Edward S. Curtis
click on photo for exhibition details
Helen Muspratt
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Elton John’s Photos at the Tate
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day 2016
Mansplaining a qualification for being a federal bloke
another male federal politician, another of Malcolm Turnbull’s chosen boys, demonstrates how being patronizing to women must be a qualification for being in the Turnbull government.
Continue reading Mansplaining a qualification for being a federal bloke
National Gallery Singapore
click on image above for the story about this very successful new national gallery.
Shimmer at the Wollongong City Gallery
Photographs of 1930s China by Stanley O. Gregory
Out of Sight
Click on the image above for a link to the pdf of the article by Gael Newton previously published as one of the papers from a seminar held in Melbourne in 2012. Continue reading Out of Sight
Singapore International Photography Festival 2016
Open Call — Singapore International Photography Festival 2016 — click on graphic above
photography
Helen Levitt at Laurence Miller
Witches both mad and bad: a loaded word with an ugly history
From The Conversation, Michelle Smith, Deakin University
Over the weekend, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton inadvertently sent a text message calling journalist Samantha Maiden a “mad f—ing witch” to Maiden herself, rather than his intended recipient, fellow MP Jamie Briggs.
Continue reading Witches both mad and bad: a loaded word with an ugly history
New Zealand photography at Te Papa
Click on the image above for an article about the exhibition, New Zealnd Photography Collected on at Te Papa in Wellington, NZ.
New Zealand photography
The Auckland Festival of photography — for news on exhibitions and more — click on the image.
The Canadian Photography Institute
Good news from Canada about photography — click on the image above
NGA Photography: The world is beautiful
Opening 4th December 2015: The world is beautiful
Peace for Paris
Philippe Halsman at Jeu de Paume
click on image for the story from ArtDaily
Germaine Krull
World Photobook Day 2015
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Andrew Sayers
Click on the image for an article by Sasha Grishin on Andrew