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Category Archives: photographers
Group M
Australian photographers — Melbourne 1959 – late 1960s
click on banner for link to information about this great group of Australian photographers
George W Bell
George W Bell: Australian photographer & painter
George W Bell photographer (1920 — 2008) was member of Group M — in Melbourne.
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.
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
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
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.
Martin Parr
award for Outstanding Contribution to Photography
click on the image for the storyMartin Parr
Joel Sternfeld
Exhibition: Colour photographs 1977–1988
Beetles+Huxley (London) till 18 February 2017
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
Werner Bischof
The Hague Museum of Photography celebrates Werner Bischof
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.
Dina Goldstein
Anne Shelton
Ann Shelton opens at Auckland Art Gallery
click on image for news about the photography exhibition 26 Nov 2016–17 April 2017
19th Century Vegetable Photographer
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.
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
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.
Portraits of William Eggleston
click on the image for the story about the exhibition of William Eggleston
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.
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
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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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
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.
Philippe Halsman at Jeu de Paume
click on image for the story from ArtDaily
Germaine Krull
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
30 Asian Photographers
Photographers in Asia — click on image
Mary Ellen Mark
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies — two reports: On from npr online — click here. Another from the New York Times — click here
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 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
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.
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.