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photography
Books & Arts
What a difference a frame makes
Richard Johnstone
23 January 2024
Three photo exhibitions map out different points on the spectrum between reality and art
Books & Arts
In the frame
Richard Johnstone
23 August 2023
Hlynur Pálmason’s
Godland
invites the viewer to pay close attention
Books & Arts
Every story tells a picture
Richard Johnstone
2 June 2023
What’s different about photos generated with AI?
Books & Arts
Autochrome’s intimate legacy
Richard Johnstone
9 March 2023
Enthusiasm for this early form of colour photography might have been shortlived, but it left behind many remarkable images
Books & Arts
Taking it or leaving it
Richard Johnstone
15 February 2023
Can photographs unlock the past? Janet Malcolm isn’t so sure
Books & Arts
Through a glass, longingly
Richard Johnstone
19 November 2021
A mass photography project shows why an iconic image of the pandemic has proved elusive
Books & Arts
Frocks, sweat and tears
Diana Bagnall
30 April 2021
Why have so many people put so much effort into the world’s most famous fashion magazine?
Books & Arts
The editorial eye
Richard Johnstone
26 September 2020
Behind Henri Cartier-Bresson and his high-profile colleagues at Magnum Photos was a talented backroom staff
Books & Arts
Where form really does follow function
Joe Rollo
15 December 2019
Architecture
| The former ETA Foods factory still pulls at the heart strings
From the archive
Irresistible attraction
Richard Johnstone
24 October 2019
Despite disappearing from public view for decades, Olive Cotton was still gripped by photography’s artistic potential
Books & Arts
Remembering the Dunera
Peter Mares
13 July 2018
Books
| A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
Books & Arts
The eyewitness
Richard Johnstone
7 August 2017
Photography
| Daniel Berehulak meticulously records individuals caught up in history
Books & Arts
Ten years of Australia’s best photographic portraits
Richard Johnstone
27 April 2017
Photography
| There’s not a selfie in sight at this year’s exhibition of National Photographic Portrait Prize finalists
Books & Arts
Perfect isolation
Richard Johnstone
3 April 2017
Photography
| Bill Henson’s new exhibition deftly connects life and art
Books & Arts
Moments between moments
Richard Johnstone
19 December 2016
With so much happening in front of the camera, there isn’t a lot of time for mobile photographers to look back
Essays & Reportage
Shooting the picture: then and now
Sally Young & Fay Anderson
7 September 2016
Much has changed since the earliest photojournalism, write
Sally Young
and
Fay Anderson
. But some challenges have made a comeback in the digital age
Books & Arts
The iconographers
Richard Johnstone
17 February 2016
Photography
| The National Gallery of Australia’s current exhibition makes the case for the standout image, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
Sound and vision
Richard Johnstone
17 November 2015
Photography
| Tony Mott didn’t so much fall into photography as throw himself into it, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
The stylish portraits of May and Mina Moore
Anne Maxwell
12 October 2015
Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century
Books & Arts
The photographer and her work
Richard Johnstone
24 August 2015
After taking up photography at forty-eight, Julia Margaret Cameron produced a remarkable and distinctive body of work
Books & Arts
Face time
Richard Johnstone
29 May 2015
Photography
|
Richard Johnstone
reviews the finalists in this year’s Head On Portrait Prize
Books & Arts
Framing Australia
Richard Johnstone
13 April 2015
Photography
| A new exhibition makes illuminating connections across Australian photographic history, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
What happened next
Richard Johnstone
23 February 2015
Photography
| Unlike conventional war photography, aftermath photographs record consequences and allow us to explore the significance of what’s depicted, writes…
Books & Arts
The compulsion in the quest
Sylvia Lawson
18 December 2014
Cinema
|
Sylvia Lawson
reviews
Particle Fever
,
The Dark Horse
and
Finding Vivian Maier
, and farewells Margaret and David
Books & Arts
Places left behind
Richard Johnstone
20 November 2014
Melbourne-born photographer Ashley Gilbertson has abandoned action photography for a different way of depicting warfare, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
Captured by the Thuilliers
Richard Johnstone
8 November 2014
From the archive
|
Remember Me: The Lost Diggers of Vignacourt
is on show in Sydney until 15 January 2015.
Richard Johnstone
reviewed its Canberra run…
Books & Arts
“Even my darkroom is a haunted place”
Richard Johnstone
20 October 2014
Although he is best known as a war photographer, Don McCullin has aimed to do much more than record his own adventures, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
Ah, yes, there you are
Richard Johnstone
1 October 2014
Photographer Jane Bown sought to unearth something essential and make it visible
Books & Arts
What does it mean to photograph a street?
Richard Johnstone
27 June 2014
Where it once depicted the urban landscape, with or without human figures, street photography now captures people wherever they might be, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
A country big enough to disappear in
Annika Lems
27 May 2014
Katrin Koenning’s photographs form a landscape of intimate moments, writes
Annika Lems
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