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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
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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
Women photographers
The fight to gain equity in the recognition of women in the art world just keeps on having to be repeated. The historical biases just do not go away.
But then along comes something that is really strange.
The V&A and Indian textiles
click on image for the Guardian’s story on the exhibition in London
Monash Gallery of Art & Bowness 2015
The MGA has announced Joseph McGlennon as the winner of the 2015 Bowness prize.
There’s an online video made before the announcement — Guardian Australian photo editor Jonny Weeks and photographer Mike Bowers discuss the entires and their picks for the winners. click here.
Marion Boyce
A visit to Rippon Lea (Melbourne) to see the wonderful exhibition of costumes produced by Marion Boyce for the ABC program Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.
Photojournalist Esther Bubley
National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibits work by photojournalist Esther Bubley — click on photo for information
Obiturary Rose Farrell 1949 – 2015
It with great sadness that we heard that our friend Rose Farrell died recently. There’s a very good piece about Rose written by Robert Nelson — click here.
Photographic Portraits from West Africa
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In and Out of the Studio
Photographic Portraits from West Africa
August 31, 2015–January 3, 2016
Click image for link to the museum — or for ArtDaily — click here
The Gift of the Daguerreotype
The extraordinary story of how photography was kick started through a French Government initiative — a gift to the world. Click on the image
Anne Summers reports
August/September 2015 issue available online — click on the image for the reports
Julia Margaret Cameron
After taking up photography at fifty-eight, Julia Margaret Cameron produced a remarkable and distinctive body of work, writes Richard Johnstone (The Inside Story). Click here for Richard’s review of the exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales — click here for the gallery link.
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national gallery singapore
Opening Celebrations announced
Starts 24 November. Complimentary entry for visitors from 24 Nov – 6 Dec 2015. Click on image for link to gallery website.
Joel Meyerowitz
Click on image for link to A Conversation with Joel Meyerowitz
Jeffrey Milstein
Click on image for photo essay on inequity in LA neighbourhoods
ArtNews + Art in America
As art publication struggle along with other hard copy magazines, there’s interesting news about how ARTnews and Art in America are to merge to form the world’s largest art-media company.
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A round up of current happenings in photography — via posts on Art Daily. Here’s the first:
Exhibition of botanical photographs by Karl Blossfeldt opens at Pinakothek der Moderne — click on the image
Singapore Photography
Loke Hong Seng at Yeo Workshops, Gillam Barracks Singapore till 6 Sept 2015
click on image for exhibition details
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An Update on the Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney). There was a story previously about the ACP moving. This was not quite correct. The ACP is not necessarily moving west as all options are still being considered as to where it could be located in the future.
30 Asian Photographers
Photographers in Asia — click on image
Visual Arts Singapore
There’s an announcement online about a new art fair to be held in January at the same time as Art Stage Singapore, Click on the image for more on this.
Australian Centre for Photography
Hot Gossip: The ACP to move west and will be soon looking for a new Director. The news being circulated around Sydney is that the ACP has made its decision to move from Paddington and to move to the western suburbs, to Parramatta. This will definitely require a change to the organisation and some of its programs.
Vincent photographed?
Is This a Photograph of Vincent Van Gogh? click on image for the story
AMBER and Cartier-Bresson
A great and arguably under-celebrated social documentary collection in the UK is having a major retrospective in its home city of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the north-east of England. Forever Amber, celebrating the work of the Amber Film and Photography Collective, opens at the city’s Laing Art Gallery today (27 June-19 September).
Click on image for the notice or click here for the gallery site
Head On Photography
Excellent review of Head On portrait prize
click on image for link to article by Richard Johnstone
Mary Ellen Mark
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies — two reports: On from npr online — click here. Another from the New York Times — click here
AGNSW Sydney Modern Project
an update on Sydney Modern Project — click on image
Visual Arts Singapore
National Gallery Singapore: A story about doubts about whether an artwork is a fake. Click on the image for more.
Trans Asia Photography Review
Review: Ars Orientalis 43 (2013)
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. Click on logo for the review.
Anne Summers Reports
Anne Summers Reports — April/May 2015
Please download Anne’s latest report on many issues — always a good read. And once you have read the reports, see if you can support this publication by becoming a subscriber. Click on image for the link.
The Curatorial Crypt
an overview of photography events
Paris Photo LA Preivew (click on the image)
Isabella Bird
Click on the image for a picture essay in The Guardian on Isabella Bird: pioneering photographer of life in 19th-century China.
The Photograph and Australia
A Review worth reading — click on the image — and then get along to the exhibition
The Curatorial Crypt
A Week in photography (care of Artdaily)
Kate Breakey at the Michener Art Museum
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Ian North
Exhibition Notice
Ian North, East Antarctica 1915, Greenaway Art Gallery
Ian North’s latest exhibition is at the Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, till April 26; Click here for the link to the gallery site. Click here for a review on The Conversation
The Curatorial Crypt
Notices
click on the links below for items of curatorial interest
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Colour my world: handcoloured Australian photography
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) Exhibition open till 30 August 2015
Betty Churcher
11 January 1931 – 31 March 2015
Maggie Diaz
Photography at Manning Clark House
From the media statement: Maggie Diaz arrived in Australia on a one-way ticket in 1961, (a divorce gift from her Australian husband) and soon established herself as one of Melbourne’s leading commercial photographers.
Known for her expertise in using available light, Diaz had a genius for capturing character and situation.
The Photograph and Australia
Exhibition Notice
A must see exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, till 8 June 2015
Between – Picturing 1950–1960s Taiwan
Exhibition Notice
Between – Picturing 1950–1960s Taiwan
ANU Australian Centre on China in the World till 3 April 2015
George Silk
I have uploaded another of my papers. This one is from a National Gallery of Australia exhibition on George Silk. Click on the image above.
Trent Parke: Black Rose
Trent Parke: Black Rose at the Art Gallery of South Australia (click on image)
40 Photographs 40 Years
1974… 40 YEARS / 40 PHOTOGRAPHS
A Celebration by Galerie Kicken Berlin — 40 years of exhibitions and support of photography through an exhibition of 40 photographs.
Wonderful to see this gallery continuing to promiote the medium and the artists. Well done Galerie Kicken (not to get an plane ticket to get to Berlin!)
The curatorial crypt
UK Bans Export of Album
The photography dealers and collectors are constantly buying and selling historic photographs across international boarders.
The curatorial crypt
Steve McCurry — Sharbat Gula
A sad story indeed about the woman in the famous Steve McCurry/National Geographic photograph. The original photograph was a 1984 cover for National Geographic.
There’s a 2015 report that Sharbat Gula, the subject of the original photograph, is in trouble because she remains a refugee from Afghanistan, but was carrying a Pakistan identify card.
Please click on the image to the right for the link to the story.
Climarte
Equity at the movies
There’s a way to go yet to achieve equity
I suspect as with climate deniers, there are people who think that the western world has achieved equity for women and for the non-white races.
Belfast Photo Festival
Call for submissions
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The curatorial crypt
Singapore Lambert
The sale price of a Singapore photograph, by G R Lambert
Having retired from the National Gallery of Australia* and now working on Southeast Asian commissions as a consultant, I observed the sale of a recent ebay auction item, SINGAPORE dated 1900, Named China Man Inscribed Cabinet Photo by GR Lambert.
NGA Contemporary
National Gallery of Australia/ Contemporary
This new exhibition space down by the lakeside opened in September 2014. See information below the images — these taken from the first exhibition.
New NGA Senior Curator of Photography
Shaune Lakin, The New NGA Senior Curator of Photography
At the end of an exhibition seminar in August at the Monash Gallery of Art, as the NGA Senior Curator of Photography who was about to finish in that role, I handed on the baton and all the challenges to my replacement, the new NGA Senior Curator of Photography (from October), Shaune Lakin (previously The MGA Director).
Monash Gallery of Art
Prize winner at Monash Gallery of Art
Petrina Hicks wins the 2014 Bowness Photography Prize
2014 Singapore International Photography Festival
Notice: 2014 Singapore Photography Festival
This festival has been a success in the past. This year’s program is looking even better.
Continue reading 2014 Singapore International Photography Festival
James Turrell at the NGA
Notice: NGA Visual Arts Exhibition
Opening 13 December 2014 is a retrospective of the work of James Turrell. The NGA had a major work of James Turrell, Within without, installed in 2010 as part of the new gardens off the front entrance a few years ago.
The coming retrospective will offer a five decade survey of this American artist’s works — click here.
Photography at the NGA
Notice: Contemporary Photography at the NGA
Photography Gallery — Gifted artists: Donations by Patrick Corrigan AM
click on the image for the link to the NGA website
Lee Grant
Notice: Photographic Artist, Lee Grant
Here’s a link to one of the many photographers whose work I have admired for quite a while now. I can highly recommend a visit to her website and to see what her recent projects have been. Click here.
Shades of Light
Publication: Shades of Light online
I have published online a version of my 1988 book Shades of Light.
This is accessed through my other website, photo-web. One day soon I hope to update this with some images and more links.
Please click here to visit this publication.