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Text: ‘The multiple singularities of photography’ / Exhibition: ‘Every...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2015 – 14th February 2016 The multiple singularities of photography Photograph, photographer, negative, print . I have never thought of photography as a “singularity” –...
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Review: ‘Trent Parke: The camera is god’ at the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 26th November 2015 – 21st February 2016 Ghost in the machine This is a disappointing first solo exhibition in Victoria by internationally renowned Australian photojournalist Trent...
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Review: ‘On the beach’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 11th December 2015 – 28th February 2016 Curator: Wendy Garden This is another solid thematic group exhibition at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery (curator Wendy...
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Exhibition: ‘1932: Rare Photographs by George Grosz’ at the Akim Monet Side...
Exhibition dates: 15th January – 19th March 2016 While the photographs of the bridge, rigging and pastimes aboard the twin-screw turbine steamer New York are the most avant-garde and successful (in...
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Exhibition: ‘The world is beautiful: photographs from the collection’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 4th December 2015 – 10th April 2016 Despite a focus on the camera’s relationship to the beauty and pure form of the modern world – “the attraction and charm of the surface” – these...
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Exhibitions: ‘Werner Bischof: Point of View’ and ‘Helvetica’ at the Musée de...
Exhibition dates: 27th January – 1st May 2016 Curators: Marco Bischof, Werner Bischof Estate, for the exhibition Point of View and Daniel Girardin, Musée de l’Elysée, for the exhibition Helvetica....
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Review: ‘Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
In their artExhibition dates: 11th December 2015 – 24th April 2016 In collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA Time lapse This mega-exhibition has been a popular success for the...
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Exhibition: ‘Provoke: Between Protest and Performance – Photography in Japan...
Exhibition dates: 29th January – 8th May 2016 I absolutely love Japanese photography from this period. Subjective photographs with a gutsy pictorial language: rough, grainy, and blurred intimations...
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Exhibition: ‘Capa in Color’ at Jeu de Paume – Château de Tours
Exhibition dates: 21st November 2015 – 29th May 2016 Curator: Cynthia Young, curator at Robert Capa archives To be honest, Robert Capa was not the most natural colour photographer, especially when...
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Exhibition: ‘Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World’ at the Morgan...
Exhibition dates: 19th February – 30th May 2016 This looks to be a fascinating exhibition. I wish I could see it. While Sight Reading cuts across conventional historical and geographic divisions,...
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Photographs: ‘Andrew Follows: Carmania 2’
June 2016 Australian vernacular Hats off to my photographer friend Andrew Follows for another stunning set of Australian automobile photographs. These photographs were taken at a fund raising display...
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Australia as an After Image: Middle Australia and the politics of fear
June 2016 “An afterimage … is an optical illusion that refers to an image continuing to appear in one’s vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased.”1 I don’t usually mix politics...
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William Blackwood: ‘Panorama of Sydney & Harbour from Government House’ 1858
July 2016 We can only imagine the impact viewing this immense panorama (over 3m long) of eleven imperial size, wet plate photographs had on the populace of Sydney. They would have seen little like it...
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Exhibition: ‘Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play’ at the Metropolitan...
Exhibition dates: 7th March – 31st July 2016 One wrong does not a life make A very large posting on a fascinating subject, for an exhibition that examines “the numerous ways that photography has...
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Exhibition: ‘Roberto Donetta Photographer and Seed Salesman from Bleniotal’...
Exhibition dates: 28th May – 4th September 2016 I have found a hidden gem in Roberto Donetta. He has become one of my favourite photographers, this seed salesman from Bleniotal, who died in obscurity...
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Exhibition: ‘Ken Domon: Master of Japanese Realism’ at the Museo dell’Ara...
Exhibition dates: 27th May – 18th September 2016 Social Realism I love most Japanese photography of the post-war period (1950s-1970s) and this artist’s work is no exception. What a absolute master of...
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Exhibition: ‘Danny Lyon: Message to the Future’ at the Whitney Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 17th June – 25th September 2016 Curator: Julian Cox This man is a living legend. What a strong body of socially conscious work he has produced over a long period of time. Each...
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Exhibition: ‘William Eggleston Portraits’ at the National Portrait Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 21st July to 23rd October 2016 Curator: Phillip Prodger, Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery Just look. Really look. And then think about that looking. Minute,...
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Exhibition: ‘Dream States: Contemporary Photographs and Video’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 16th May – 30th October 2016 The best fun I had with this posting was putting together the first twelve images. They seem to act as ‘strange attractors’, a feeling recognised by the...
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Text / Photographs: Mother Boats C.P. (Brian Traynor). ‘Los Angeles Pride...
October 2016 The year was 1970. The year of the first Earth Day, the year that the United States invaded Cambodia, the year when National Guardsmen shot four student demonstrators at an antiwar rally...
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