So Wim Wenders thinks photography is dead. I think I last heard that about a decade ago. How long before the next time…
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 14 October 2017
Tag: photography
photography exhibitions in Sydney
A notice below about the latest exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.Comment: I used to enjoy…
Posted by The Art Museum on Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Polaroid is back
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 16 September 2017
Photographs of Chua Soo Bin
Exhibition: Chua Soo Bin at The Arts House, Singapore
Exhibition: Light with Ink: 18 AUG – 18 SEP 2017 – Click on image
Contemporary Chinese photography
Working on History: Contemporary Chinese Photography and the Cultural Revolution
An exhibition presented by the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Chinesischen Kulturellen Austausch e.V. (GeKA) – click here.
Lee Fook Chee
Lee Fook Chee: Son of Singapore, Photographer of Hong Kong
The Art House, Singapore, 3 AUG – 3 SEP 2017
Starstruck
Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery (Australia)
10 Nov 2017 – 12 March 2018, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
W Eugene Smith
New Book on W Eugene Smith
W Eugene Smith – notice of new book: Gene Smith’s Sink by Sam Stephenson, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 22 August
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
International Centre of Photography
International Centre of PhotographyRed Spotted Purple: Roman Vishniac Science Worktill oct 27, 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Sunday, 6 August 2017
Vernacular Photographs
Vernacular Photographs of, by, and for African Americans
Vernacular Photographs of, by, and for African AmericansJUL 29 – DEC 3, 2017Portland Art Museum
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 5 August 2017
August Sander
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
Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women
Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture
The 2017 Olive Cotton Award exhibition catalogue
Click here to download the pdf of the exhibition of the finalists
Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture 2017
The 2017 Director’s Choice Award
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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David Stephenson and Martin Walch
Exhibition: The Derwent
Exhibition now open at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (Hobart).
Mervyn Bishop at the AGNSW
Wonderful photography – and a well curated exhibition.
Ballarat foto Biennale
Martin Kantor Portrait Prize
The Ballarat International Foto Biennale today announced the 28 finalists in the running for the inaugural Martin Kantor Portrait Prize.
Ballarat foto Biennale
2017 BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE
19 AUGUST – 17 SEPTEMBER
MEG HEWITT: TOKYO IS YOURS
Benalla Art Gallery
Exhibition: Patterns of Connection
An exhibition I hope to see – being on till 30th Jul 2017
Christian Thompson
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
Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919-33 review – August Sander and Otto Dix, masters of life and death
Tate Liverpool: Sander sees the humanity in everyone, Dix nothing but horror, in this superb show exploring Germany between the wars.
How botany helped give birth to photography
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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Max Dupain
Reinterpreting the Sunbaker
a video of images that attempt to reinterpret the now icon Australian image by Max Dupain.
Rijksmuseum photography
the Rijksmuseum is presenting a major retrospective of 19th-century photography – click here
Jeff Moorfoot OAM
Ballarat photography festival director recognised
from the listing:
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
MGA Call for entries
Entries now invited
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Stills Gallery: Curtain Call
Scenes from the Exhibition
Curtain Call at Stills Gallery Sydney
Here at photographs of the opening of the final Stills Gallery exhibition – Curtin Call
Frank Hurley & Australian Native Plants
INFORMATION CALL-OUT: FRANK HURLEY
Searching for Frank Hurley along our northern beaches
Did you know that Frank Hurley was a very keen gardener and photographer of wild flowers?
Europeana Photography
Europe’s rich photographic heritage
click on image for the new portal on European photography collections. A fantastic research tool.
Auckland festival of photography
Auckland photography festival update
Click here for the newsletter update on the 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography – or
Shadows Are Cast By Things And People
ACP Exhibition
A notice for an exhibition by the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
Head On Photography
click here for the latest notice about Sydney’s photography festival – HEAD ON – 2 weeks to go.
Tracey Moffatt at 2017 Venice Biennale
Canberra Visual Arts in May
Visual Arts exhibitions May 2017
Here’s a few of the exhibitions in Canberra this month.
Stills Gallery: Curtain Call
Exhibition: Curtain Call at Stills Gallery Sydney
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:
Research: Belinda Hungerford
New paper uploaded on photography research
Click on the image above to see a new research paper by Belinda Hungerford that has been uploaded to photoweb.
The Photography Room May-June 2017
3 New Exhibitions at The Photography Room
Dörte Conroy – What Comes to Mind: Lorna Sim – Enigma:
Maurice Weidmann- Absence of Sunshine
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photoaccess
Exhibition: Chinese Whispers and Other Stories, curated by Pia Johnson
This photoaccess exhibition is an exhibition I recommend – not because all the works are successful – but for combined messages.
Getty Photography
J Paul Getty, Masterpieces, Photography
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.
Regis Lansac
Head On Photography Exhibition
Exhibition of Regis Lansac’s photographs at Janet Clayton Gallery:
3-28 May 2017
HEAD ON
HEAD ON photography festival (Sydney)
click on the image for the latest on the HEAD ON photography Festival
5th -28 May 2017
Photographing Singapore’s public housing
Photographing Singapore’s public housing
There’s an article in Straits Times about photographer Koh Kim Chay and his decades of photographing the ubiquitous government flats of Singapore.
Eduardo Masferre
Exhibition: Eduardo Masferre at the NGA
There’s a wonderful set of photographs by Eduardo Masferre presently on exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
Auckland festival of photography
Auckland photography festival notice
Click here for news on the 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography
PhotoAccess
PhotoAccess exhibition: Common Ground
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.
The Photography Room
April 2017 exhibitions at The Photography Room
Canberra’s The Photography Room continues to provide an amazing array of photography exhibition.
The National Photography Portrait Prize
photography
Photography at Pier 24, San Francisco
The Grain of the Present, Pier 24 presents the work of ten photographers. Click here for more.
plundering the west – in photographs
Exhibition of photographs – from The Washington Post – click here.