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Exhibition: ‘Darron Davies: The Travellers’ at the Centre for Theology and...
Exhibition dates: 9th April – 10th May 2016 I opened this exhibition for Darron Davies at the Centre for Theology and Ministry, Melbourne. I can’t remember exactly what I said but it went something...
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Photograph: ‘Hobart Town – from Kangaroo Point 1891’
4th May 2016 This albumen photograph of Hobart, Tasmania was taken in 1891 by an unknown photographer. Mount Wellington behind the city. The photograph is one that is possibly not known before of...
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Exhibition: ‘Gerda Wegener’ at ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
Exhibition dates: 7th November 2015 – 8th January 2017 GERDA WEGENER: The unusual story of a love between painter and muse that transcends gender boundaries. Just a small comment on this posting as...
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Exhibition: ‘François Kollar. A Working Eye’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 9th February – 22nd May 2016 Curators: Matthieu Rivallin, collections officer, Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, and Pia Viewing, curator – researcher at the Jeu...
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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: ‘Edward S. Curtis: One Hundred Masterworks’ at the Palm Springs...
Exhibition dates: 20th February – 29th May 2016 Not only was he one of the greatest ethnographic photographers of all time (as well as being an ethnographer recording more than 10,000 songs on a...
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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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Exhibition: ‘Jan Senbergs: Observation – Imagination’ at The Ian Potter...
Exhibition dates: 18th March – 12th June 2016 You only have five days left to catch what I consider to be one of the best exhibitions I have seen this year in Melbourne. If ever there was a man...
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Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: England, 1993
I finally got around to scanning some more of my black and white archive, this time further photographs from a trip to England in 1993 forming a new sequence. The photographs picture my now ageing...
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Exhibition: ‘Bill Henson: Landscapes’ at Castlemaine Art Gallery and...
Exhibition dates: 30th April – 30th June 2016 Drawing on light A magnificent installation from one of the world’s great photographers. Why this artist is not having sell out retrospectives at MoMA...
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Exhibition: ‘RealSurreal. Masterpieces of Avant-Garde Photography’ at Museum...
Exhibition dates: 1st April 2016 – 24th July 2016 I loved putting the Florence Henri and the skull together. Too exhausted after a long day at work to say much else! Marcus . Many thankx to Museum...
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Exhibition: ‘Brett Weston: Significant Details’ at Pasadena Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 17th April – 11th September 2016 Curator: Erin Aitali, PMCA Director of Exhibitions and Registrar If your subject is essentially unrecognizable – a defining characteristic of many...
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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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Exhibition: ‘Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 19th March – 3rd July 2016 Last day for this exhibition from one of the masters of photography. Apologies to the gallery and the readers that I did not get the posting up earlier...
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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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Review: ‘Max and Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain’...
Exhibition dates: 31st May – 24th July 2016 National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition Curator: Shaune Lakin An independent vision Pictorialism, Surrealism and Modernism: Light, geometry...
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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: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium’ at the J. Paul Getty...
Exhibition dates: 15th March – 31st July 2016 The Perfect Moment, The Perfect Medium and … Mapplethorpe, that seminal exhibition for Australia that I saw at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium’ at the Los Angeles...
Exhibition dates: 20th March – 31st July 2016 Robert Mapplethorpe is a formalist. Apollonian and Dionysian ideals are two sides of the same coin. Marcus . Many thankx to the Los Angeles County Museum...
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