Search

31. Letters - June-July 2005

(June–July 2005, no. 272)

... It obviously depends on exactly how one defines dissent. I responded to it in broad terms: to encompass the work of indigenous photographers (Ricky Maynard, Destiny Deacon), wilderness photography (Peter ...

32. Helen Ennis reviews ‘1904: Korea through Australian eyes’ edited by Rodney Hall

(June–July 2005, no. 272)

... isolationism, it had remained largely untouched by photography: those who had taken photographs in the late-nineteenth century were usually amateurs and Westerners rather than Koreans themselves. Rose’s ...

33. Susan Sheridan reviews ‘A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia’ by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

(July 2024, no. 466)

... as a schoolgirl), photography, and radio (she took on jobs in both areas). She loved the theatre, and participated in both amateur and professional companies (in the latter usually as a teacher). Theatre ...

34. Luke Morgan reviews ‘Disclosing Spaces: On painting’ by Andrew Benjamin

(November 2005, no. 276)

... as coming after photography. The art historian might baulk at this, suspecting anachronism, but, if I am reading him correctly, Benjamin is arguing that painting needs to be released from its imprisonment ...

35. Michael Sariban reviews ‘The Yellow Dress’ by Yve Louis and ‘The Ancient Capital of Images’ by John Mateer

(November 2005, no. 276)

... observing it, meticulously and speculatively. His eye – ‘the nerves deep in the black box of your skull’ – is indeed a marvellous camera, and photography, actual or metaphorical, is never far from this ...

36. Heather Neilson reviews ‘The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism’ edited by Walter Kalaidjian

(November 2005, no. 276)

... of their own originality.’ More than 1200 works by European and American artists – paintings, sculptures and other forms (although, interestingly, no photography, as Michael North points out in his essay, ...

37. Peter Menkhorst reviews ‘Owls: Journeys around the world’ by David Hollands

(March 2005, no. 269)

... of his favourite species, some of which he had dreamt of meeting for decades. This passion shines through in the writing and the skilful photographs. Bird photography is a specialised and exacting field. ...

38. Evelyn Juers reviews ‘Margaret Michaelis: Love, loss and photography’ by Helen Ennis

(September 2005, no. 274)

... Margaret Michaelis was born Margarethe Gross in 1902, in Dzieditz (Austria, later Poland); when she died in 1985, in Melbourne, she was known as Margaret Sachs. She studied photography at the Institute ...

39. James Ley reviews ‘Australian Literary Studies’ edited by Leigh Dale, ‘Meanjin: Portraits of the artists’ edited by Ian Britain and ‘Southerly: Watermarks’ guest Edited by Nicolette Stasko and Mark Tredinnick, ...

(September 2005, no. 274)

... hinge essay is a contribution from Marion Halligan that develops a stimulating but occasionally confused argument about the respective truth claims of painting, photography and fiction. Halligan argues ...

40. Patrick Flanery reviews ‘The Adelaide Art Scene’ by Margot Osborne and ‘AGSA 500’ edited by Rhana Devenport

(June 2024, no. 465)

... from migrant artists in the postwar period, to the impact of the Adelaide Central School of Art in the 1980s, to Osborne’s own fascinating work on South Australian photography in the last two decades of ...

41. 'Civil War: A dystopian America at war with itself' by J. Taylor Bel

(ABR Arts)

... it in her country. This sentiment echoes the famous Sontag quote from On Photography: photographed images of suffering … do not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. ...

42. Bruce Muirden reviews ‘Don Dunstan’s Australia’ by Don Dunstan

(October 1978, no. 5)

State Premiers are usually required to be articulate; to be literate and civilised as well is an unexpected bonus. After almost nine years in office, one of our most literate Premiers since or before ...

43. David Hansen reviews ‘The Art of Australia, Volume 1: Exploration to Federation’ by John McDonald

(March 2009, no. 309)

... ephemera, Helen Ennis on photography? Apropos photography, how can we have four pages and five reproductions of Fred Kruger’s Corranderrk photographs but no reference to Jane Lydon’s Eye Contact? The literary ...

44. Paul de Serville reviews ‘The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins: Australia’s unknown hero’ by Simon Nasht

(December 2005–January 2006, no. 277)

... stations. It demonstrates that in some of his thinking he was decades ahead of the scientific establishment. Wilkins grasped instinctively the uses of aerial photography and aviation when these were in ...

45. ‘The art of communication’ by Stephanie Owen Reeder

(August 2006, no. 283)

... perspective, while the illustrations show the human reality. The illustrations – visually arresting montages of collage, linocut, photography, painting and drawing – create strong images that successfully ...

46. Index for 2023: Nos 450–460 & online features

(Indexes)

... Tim Byrne, online only Worstward Ho (Victorian Theatre Company), Ben Brooker, online only Visual Arts Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media (The Art Gallery of South Australia), 452/54, Patrick ...

47. Andrew van der Vlies reviews ‘Tremor’ by Teju Cole

(April 2024, no. 463)

... In this moving, messy, multiply focalised narrative, however, the hostile context is also the universe itself. Art in its many forms, from music to photography, painting to film, offers the only reliable ...

48. 'Perfect Days: A beautiful, humane film from Wim Wenders' by Richard Leathe

(ABR Arts)

... style is a clear influence on director of photography Franz Lustig in the dream sequences that are interspersed throughout Perfect Days, and the film in general feels like a response and homage to the ...

49. Maggie Nolan reviews ‘One Another’ by Gail Jones

(March 2024, no. 462)

... life, as surely as it did Conrad’s. The markers of modernity – trains, cinema, photography – pervade the novel, and empire and its trappings are keenly observed, and felt, in both Helen’s and Conrad’s ...

50. ‘Art Museums in an Age of Bread and Circuses’ by Christopher R. Marshall

(March 2006, no. 279)

... 2005 brought the reopening of the University of Melbourne’s Ian Potter Museum of Art, the opening of the new Centre for Contemporary Photography by Sean Godsell Architects, the closure of the National ...