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1. Rigoletto and Così Fan Tutte (Opera Australia)
(ABR Arts)
... photography admonition underway, conductor due any moment, we became aware of a strange incident in the gloom, as a solitary figure – elderly, well-dressed, seated behind the conductor, copious notes in ...
2. Juno Gemes: The Quiet Activist, A Survey Exhibition 1979–2019
(ABR Arts)
... with photography came in 1964 with Nothing Personal by James Baldwin and Richard Avedon, a book that would become seminal in her own work. Later she photographed Baldwin on the roof of a hotel in London, ...
3. 'Forced marriage: MAFS and reality television’s chamber of horrors' by Alecia Simmonds
(April 2019, no. 410)
... vows, kiss, partake in a bridal photography session, and then celebrate at a wedding reception. The couples, ‘fast-tracked’ through a series of marital challenges, return at the end of each week to a ‘commitment ...
4. Philip Jones reviews 'Capturing Nature: Early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893' by Vanessa Finney ...
(April 2019, no. 410)
... artefacts, sketches, and photographs. But while an increasing number of publications and exhibitions draw upon museum archives in this way, less attention has been paid to the ways in which photography ...
5. The Update - March 12, 2019
(ABR Arts)
...  was selected from 482 entrants for his work Pedder Prime Cuts, which draws inspiration from Tasmania’s Lake Pedder. The work is a reimagining of the lake using a combination of the digital mapping, photography ...
6. Ballenesque, Roger Ballen: A Retrospective (GAGPROJECTS/Adelaide Festival)
(ABR Arts)
... come to life.   Born in 1950, Ballen was exposed to photography at a young age, growing up in what could be considered the inner circle of New York’s photography scene: his mother opened one of the first ...
7. Arbus & West (Melbourne Theatre Company)
(ABR Arts)
...  magazine had commissioned the New Yorker to photograph the legendary star at home in Santa Monica. Arbus, who had cut her teeth in commercial and fashion photography, was now breaking into an edgier worl ...
8. Sheridan Palmer reviews 'The Boy from Brunswick: Leonard French, A biography' by Reg MacDonald
(March 2019, no. 409)
... of LIFE Australia, August 19, 1988, Vol. 45, No. 4. LIFE logo and cover design © TIME inc. Cover photograph by David Moore, courtesy of David Moore Photography © Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore ...
9. Alison Stieven-Taylor reviews 'Visualising Human Rights' edited by Jane Lydon
(March 2019, no. 409)
... without them. Historically, photography has played a significant role in exposing violations of human rights to a mass audience. Images of King Leopold of Belgium’s vicious rule of the Congo in the mid-1800s, ...
10. The Flying Dutchman (Melbourne Opera)
(ABR Arts)
... s Senta with Melbourne Opera Chorus (photography by Robin Halls) Interestingly, unlike Tannhauser, Lohengrin, and Tristan und Isolde, neither protagonist shows any affection for the other – their only  ...
11. Ron Radford reviews 'Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening our eyes' by Joanna Mendelssohn et al.
(January-February 2019, no. 408)
... y of Australian printmaking, sculpture, decorative arts, and particularly photography. Photography, barely acknowledged in the 1960s as an art form, has now become one of the most popular areas of historic ...
12. 2019 Jolley Prize Judges
(Competitions and programs)
Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. Clarke's short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, The ...
13. Ben Vine reviews 'These Truths: A History of the United States' by Jill Lepore
(January-February 2019, no. 408)
...  discourse as the nation industrialised, grew more unequal, and encountered technological developments that constantly reshaped political discourse – photography, mass production, radio, television, and ...
14. Alan Atkinson reviews 'The Land of Dreams: How Australians won their freedom, 1788–1860' by David Kemp
(January-February 2019, no. 408)
This is the first of a five-volume series, apparently all by David Kemp, with the general title Australian Liberalism. The second volume, A Free Country: Australians’ search for utopia 1861–1901, is planned ...
15. David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948–2018 (Museum of Contemporary Art)
(ABR Arts)
... Town © The David Goldblatt Legacy Trust Goldblatt came to photography in his late teens, inspired by the American pictorial magazines such as Life and influenced by the work of Ansel Adams. Goldblatt ...
16. Boy Erased
(ABR Arts)
... that here it is the son rather than the father who speaks of the necessity to accept love and speak truthfully. The real Garrard Conley (photo by Colin Boyd Shafer Photography)The real Garrard Conley ...
17. Wildlife
(ABR Arts)
Paul Dano, one of the most soulful and intense actors of his generation, has appeared in a number of films over the last decade in which rupture and dysfunction serve to undermine a family unit. In Little ...
18. David McCooey reviews three poets at the height of their powers
(November 2018, no. 406)
... in Anywhy cover ancient history and archeology, war, photography, suburbia, birdlife, and so on. A number of poems are ekphrastic in nature, which is to say they respond to other works of art, such as ...
19. 'The art of pain: Writing in the age of trauma' by Beejay Silcox
(November 2018, no. 406)
...  enter, either, with its lurking potential for moral judgement. But, as a friend wisely said to me, ‘Trauma is pretty fucking uncomfortable.’ Beejay Silcox (photo by Elizabeth-Richelle Photography)A ...
20. Andrea Gaynor reviews 'The Allure of Fungi' by Alison Pouliot
(October 2018, no. 405)
... and unruly life. Photo essays comprising stunning macrophotography of fungi appear between substantive chapters. Pouliot’s use of a very shallow depth of field in most of the photographs evokes a sense ...