{"id":397,"date":"2015-11-24T15:06:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/?p=397"},"modified":"2015-11-24T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T04:09:48","slug":"nga-photography-the-world-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/nga-photography-the-world-is-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"caps\">NGA<\/span> Photography: The world is beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"title\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11242\" src=\"http:\/\/the-southern-cross.com\/awordortwo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/WorldisbeautifulBanner3_187203.jpg\" alt=\"WorldisbeautifulBanner3_187203\" width=\"700\" height=\"270\">Opening 4th December 2015: <em>The world is beautiful<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Below are words taken from the NGA\u2019s Artonline <span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"title\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The world is beautiful: photographs from the collection<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><em>The world is beautiful<\/em> is an exhibition of exceptional photographs from the 1920s to now from the <span class=\"caps\">NGA<\/span>\u2019s collection, presenting rare and memorable work by the great names in photographic history including Man Ray, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Max Dupain, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and many&nbsp;more.<\/p>\n<p>When the <span class=\"caps\">NGA<\/span> opened its doors in 1982, it already held a&nbsp;collection of photographic treasures that was considered the richest holding of photography in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>As a&nbsp;collection intended to include masterpieces of international photography and present an encyclopaedic account of Australian practice, it held major works by most of the twentieth century\u2019s most highly regarded photographers.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, the collection has grown both in size and scope: our use of the term \u2018international\u2019 now refers not just to Europe and North America, but pictures from our immediate region as well as northern Asia, Africa and Central and South America. 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