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Contemporary Australian photography in LondonMichael Reid Gallery has opened an exhibition of Australian Contemporary Photography at the Australian High Commission in London.
Another big splash in London!
We have been the joint-curators for the Frank Hurley exhibition now on at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
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Bill Henson at the Tolarno Galleries 104 Exhibition Street Melbourne
till 2 June 2018.
Notice for an exhibition of photographs by Raymond Smith till June 3rd 2018.
Polixeni Papapetrou’s new works on exhibition till 28 April at Michael Reid in Sydney.
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We visited the Manly Arts Gallery & Museum today.
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Michiko Kon, Recent Works 2018Mar 7 － Apr 28, 2018Photo Gallery International in Toranomon, Tokyo
Posted by The Art Museum on Monday, 2 April 2018
Till 22 April 2018Andreas Gursky at Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
Posted by The Art Museum on Monday, 2 April 2018
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Celebrating IWD – 8th March 2018
Adelie Hurley (1919-2010) – The first Australian female commercial photojournalist
An exhibition of Australian contemporary photography (and two video works) at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery (Canberra) till 8 April 2018
Keen to plan 2018 visits to Sydney, I looked online to see what photography exhibitions would be held in the photography gallery at the Art Gallery of NSW (Sydney).
Exhibition: Pat Brassington: the body electric at the Art Gallery of New South Wales till 11 Feb 2018.
Frank Hurley: From Circular Quay to Collaroy Plateau.
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Friday 1oth November 2017: David Moore was posthumously inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Australian journalism.
Lisa Moore has announced this on her facebook page – click here.
A very good piece on ArtBlart about Bill Heimerman 1950 – 2017
Photo above: Peter Leiss, William Heimerman c. 1975-80
We have uploaded a new page on photo-web that provides a link to Gael Newton’s essays on Max Dupain as well as links to other articles and resources. Click here.
Max Dupain, Bankstown aerodrome camouflage experiment, c.1943. National Archives of Australia
Continue reading “William and Winfred Bowness Photography Prize”
Congratulation Polixeni Papapetroua magical image of hope and beauty
Posted by The Art Museum on Thursday, 19 October 2017
Exhibition notices for The Photography Room, CanberraEmilio Cresciani & Adam Hollingworth13 October – 19 November 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Monday, 9 October 2017
a good review by Dr Marcus Bunyan (Art Blart) of Gregory Crewdson's latest works – agree with his take on the treatment of women in these photographs.
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 3 October 2017
one for the 2018 diaryVictorian Giants: The Birth of Art PhotographyNational Portrait Gallery (UK) 1 March – 20 May 2018
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 22 August 2017
Exhibition: Light with Ink: 18 AUG – 18 SEP 2017 – Click on image
Editta Sherman lived and worked above Carnegie Hall from the late 1940s to 2010, photographing thousands of celebrity portraits―actors, writers, poets, and musicians―in classic black-and-white style.
The Art House, Singapore, 3 AUG – 3 SEP 2017
Art Blart posts on Walker Evans at the Centre Pompidou Pariscloses 14 August 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 8 August 2017
photos and films by surrealist René Magritte.Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell (Victoria)19 August 2017 – 19 November 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Tuesday, 8 August 2017
10 Nov 2017 – 12 March 2018, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
International Centre of PhotographyRed Spotted Purple: Roman Vishniac Science Worktill oct 27, 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
A piece about August SanderPortraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933 is on at Tate Liverpool 23 June – 15 October 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 4 August 2017
Click here to download the pdf of the exhibition of the finalists
The 2017 Director’s Choice Award was the The Papapetrou Family by Anne Zahalka, acquired for the Tweed Regional Gallery’s Permanent Collection through funds from the Friends of the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre Inc.
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Exhibition now open at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (Hobart).
The Tweed Regional Gallery has announced the winners of the 2017 Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture.
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Wonderful photography – and a well curated exhibition.
First saw the works of this artist as listed for exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
click here to see Gael Newton’s postscript on her former report on the 2016-2017 significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) has announced that one of Australia’s leading visual artists, Bidjara man Dr Christian Thompson is set to make his virtual reality debut as winner of the inaugural $80,000 Mordant Family VR Commission. Click here.
Tate Liverpool: Sander sees the humanity in everyone, Dix nothing but horror, in this superb show exploring Germany between the wars.
From The Art Newspaper:
A survey of early photography at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (New Realities: Photography in the 19th Century, 17 June-17 September) will focus on “the noisy century” of the medium, says the show’s curator, Mattie Boom. Around 300 pictures from the museum’s collection of more than 150,000 photographs will be included.
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a video of images that attempt to reinterpret the now icon Australian image by Max Dupain.
A post on Doug and Victoria at the Photo Book Festival in Vienna.
from the listing:
Entries now invited
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Anne Zahalka’s new exhibition at the city gallery in Albury- MAMA – till Sunday 5th November 2017
