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 — April/May 2015Please 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.
Paris Photo LA Preivew (click on the image)
Click on the image for a picture essay in The Guardian on Isabella Bird: pioneering photographer of life in 19th-century China.
A Review worth reading — click on the image — and then get along to the exhibition
Kate Breakey at the Michener Art Museum
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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
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National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) Exhibition open till 30 August 2015
11 January 1931 – 31 March 2015
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.
Exhibition Notice
A must see exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, till 8 June 2015
ANU Australian Centre on China in the World till 3 April 2015
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 at the Art Gallery of South Australia (click on image)
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 photography dealers and collectors are constantly buying and selling historic photographs across international boarders.
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.
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.
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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.
This new exhibition space down by the lakeside opened in September 2014. See information below the images — these taken from the first exhibition.
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).
Petrina Hicks wins the 2014 Bowness Photography Prize
This festival has been a success in the past. This year’s program is looking even better.
Continue reading 2014 Singapore International Photography Festival
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 Gallery — Gifted artists: Donations by Patrick Corrigan AM
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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.
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.
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