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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.
Continue reading “How botany helped give birth to photography”
a video of images that attempt to reinterpret the now icon Australian image by Max Dupain.
the Rijksmuseum is presenting a major retrospective of 19th-century photography – click here
from the listing:
Entries now invited
Continue reading “William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize”
Curtain Call at Stills Gallery Sydney
Here at photographs of the opening of the final Stills Gallery exhibition – Curtin Call
INFORMATION CALL-OUT: FRANK HURLEYSearching for Frank Hurley along our northern beaches
Did you know that Frank Hurley was a very keen gardener and photographer of wild flowers?
click on image for the new portal on European photography collections. A fantastic research tool.
Click here for the newsletter update on the 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography – or
A notice for an exhibition by the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
click here for the latest notice about Sydney’s photography festival – HEAD ON – 2 weeks to go.
Here’s a few of the exhibitions in Canberra this month.
Still have given notice of their final exhibition.
With Curtain Call, Stills Gallery is looking back over the history of the gallery and presents the mother of all salon hangs featuring over 70 artists from over the 26 years of exhibitions including:
Click on the image above to see a new research paper by Belinda Hungerford that has been uploaded to photoweb.
Dörte Conroy – What Comes to Mind: Lorna Sim – Enigma:
Maurice Weidmann- Absence of Sunshine
Continue reading “The Photography Room May-June 2017”
This photoaccess exhibition is an exhibition I recommend – not because all the works are successful – but for combined messages.
Here’s a 1999 publication that is really worth looking through – I borrowed a copy from the library. It is a gem. The production of the photographs in the catalogue are sumptuous – so do not settled for any online version here or elsewhere. You have to see the book – or even better see the originals. But that’s my point – see my comments after this sample.
Exhibition of Regis Lansac’s photographs at Janet Clayton Gallery:
3-28 May 2017
click on the image for the latest on the HEAD ON photography Festival
5th -28 May 2017
There’s an article in Straits Times about photographer Koh Kim Chay and his decades of photographing the ubiquitous government flats of Singapore.
There’s a wonderful set of photographs by Eduardo Masferre presently on exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
Click here for news on the 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography
If you are interested in seeing a mixture of contemporary photography – then get yourself over to Manuka and visit PhotoAccess to enjoy their members’ exhibition – Common Ground.
Canberra’s The Photography Room continues to provide an amazing array of photography exhibition.
The Grain of the Present, Pier 24 presents the work of ten photographers. Click here for more.
Exhibition of photographs – from The Washington Post – click here.
Exhibition notice: photography festival in Melbourne
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Festival of photography – click here.
Gary Grealy’s portrait of Richard Morecroft & Alison Mackay (above).
Always an enjoyable viewing, managed to see the latest works by Elaine Campaner – recommended.
click on banner for link to information about this great group of Australian photographers
Exhibitions 24 March – 30 April Continue reading “The Photography Room”
click on the image for the latest on the HEAD ON Festival
Curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean – click on image.
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This curated group exhibition is a mixed bag of artworks in various media – which is not necessarily a good or bad thing.
news from Stills in SydneyThe photography community and art lovers received this sad news this week. While it is fully understood and we all sympathise, it is still so sad to lose what has been a gallery that has done a magnificent job for the world of photography.
here’s the letter as received:
Toby Meagher’s Research Paper–June 2013. The paper was written for a Masters in Art Administration at COFA. Click here.
click on the image for the website – Women Photograph
Exhibition: Sean Davey at The Photography Room
Are you interested in fine photography, an interest in beautifully printed black & white photographs and works by a photographer who knows his craft as a documentary photographer/artist?
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.
At The Photography Room in Kingston (Canberra) is the exhibition by Sean Davey – Solomon Islands (2016).
Re-staging the first photographic exhibition..
18 February – 17 April 2017 at State Library of New South Wales – click on image for the 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.
