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Exhibition: ‘Alan Constable: Ten Cameras’ at South Willard, Los Angeles
Exhibition dates: 4th May – 2nd June 2013 Curated by Ricky Swallow . Wow it really happened! Congratulations to Alan Constable, Sim Lutin and Melissa Petty from Arts Access Australia and to Ricky...
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Artist: Edith Meisl-Bernhard ‘Way to the Wailing Wall’ c. 1965
. I have been searching the world for another painting by Edith Meisl-Bernhard like the one I own here in Australia and now, from America, comes news of another work by this artist: “I purchased this...
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Exhibition: ‘Sophia Szilagyi: water studies’ at Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Exhibition dates: 23rd May – 11th June 2013 . “It is intangible, incalculable, a thing to be felt, not comprehended – a music of the eyes, a melody of the heart…” John Ruskin, art critic . “Once,...
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Exhibition: ‘Harry Callahan Retrospective’ at the House of Photography at...
Exhibition dates: 22nd March – 9th June 2013 . Great to see some early colour photographs from this master. . Many thankx to the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg for allowing me to publish...
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Exhibition: ‘Sentinels’ by David Wood at Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park
Exhibition dates: 29th May – 16th June 2013 . A solid first solo exhibition from my friend David Wood at Gasworks Arts Park. Conceptually the show needed a little tightening but technically the work is...
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Exhibition: ‘The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951′ at The...
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 16th June 2013 . Conscience of the brave Bradley Manning. A slight, bespectacled, intelligent gay man. A man who has the courage of his convictions. He revealed truth at...
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Video: ‘I am Bradley Manning’
Evil prospers when good men do nothing . Bradley Manning. A slight, bespectacled, intelligent gay man. A man who has the courage of his convictions. He revealed truth at the heart of the world’s...
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Photograph: Gregor Arax. ‘Pierre Laurent’ 1948
. A photograph that I have been scanning for Nick Henderson, the negative of which he bought at auction. A great negative, well exposed, with an unusual background for a physique photograph. American?...
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Review: ‘Lee Grant / Belco Pride’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 5th June – 22nd June 2013 . In Belco Pride, the photographer Lee Grant comes as close as you are ever likely to come to an Australian version of the American photographer Alec Soth...
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Exhibition: ‘Tim Hetherington / Doug Rickard’ at Stills Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 22nd May to 22nd June 2013 In association with Yossi Milo Gallery and Head On Photo Festival . “Our generation is not attached to this myth of photography as objective reporting...
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Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: South Yarra and surrounds, 1994
. I am scanning my negatives made during the years 1991 – 1997 to preserve them in the form of an online archive as a process of active memory, so that the images are not lost forever. These...
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Exhibition: ‘Joan Ross: Touching Other People’s Shopping’ at Bett Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 7th June – 28th June 2013 . The claiming of things The touching of things The digging of land The tagging of place The taking over of the world Tag and capture. Tag and capture. Shop,...
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Exhibition: ‘Gilbert & George – London Pictures’ at MKM Museum Küppersmühle...
Exhibition dates: 20th March 20 – 30th June 2013 . I used to think that Gilbert & George’s work was inventive and relevant, that it had something important to say about contemporary culture. These...
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Exhibition: ‘The Naked Man’ at Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Exhibition dates: 23rd March – 30th June 2013 . Many thankx to the Ludwig Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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Exhibition: ‘Troy Ruffels: Cinder’ at James Makin Gallery, Collingwood,...
Exhibition dates: 13th June 13 – 6th July 2013 . This scratching away at reality. Abstractness of becoming. . Tension. Music. Light. Undertow. A current below the surface of the sea moving in the...
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Exhibition: ‘Petrina Hicks: Selected Photographs, 2013′ at Helen Gory...
Exhibition dates: 12t June – 6th July 2013 . “They’re thoughtful pictures that arouse curiosity rather than desire.” . Robert Nelson . . A stunning, eloquent and conceptually complex exhibition buy...
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Review: Polixeni Papapetrou ‘A Performative Paradox’ and Daniel von Sturmer...
Exhibition dates: 24th May – 14th July 2013 . Two solid if not overly memorable exhibitions are presented at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Polixeni Papapetrou A Performative Paradox is a bit...
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Text: ‘Ernest Cole: Journeys through photojournalism, social documentary...
Exhibition dates: 7th April – 7th July 2013 . . Ernest Cole: Journeys through photojournalism, social documentary photography and art Dr Marcus Bunyan . Abstract This text investigates the trajectory...
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Exhibition: ‘Experience Civil War Photography: From the Home Front to the...
Exhibition dates: 1st August 2012 – 31st July 2013 . Many thankx to the Smithsonian Castle for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Text: ‘Un/settling Aboriginality’ Dr Marcus Bunyan / Exhibition: ‘Brook...
Exhibition dates: 15th June – 20th July 2013 . Many thankx to Tolarno Gallery for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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