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1. Index for 2020: Nos 418–427 & online features

(Indexes)

...  ENNIS, Helen, Olive Cotton: A life in photography, Fourth Estate, 418/23, Alison Stieven-Taylor ENRIGHT, ANNE, Actress, Jonathan Cape, 419/21, Alice Nelson ERDRICH, Louise, The Nightwatchman, Corsair, ...

2. Don Anderson reviews 'Risks' edited by Brenda Walker

(April 1996, no. 179)

... the volume as ‘risk’, I suggest that the strong binding thread throughout the book, noted by Walker in her introduction is, not ‘risk’ but ‘photography’. The cover photograph by the always commanding Bill ...

3. Jaynie Anderson reviews 'Albert Tucker' by Gavin Fry

(October 2006, no. 285)

... The photographs enliven the book and are a relief from much of the repetitive, even ugly, surfaces of the paintings. The author is strangely defensive about Tucker’s photography, which seems odd at a time ...

4. Georgina Arnott reviews 'Switched On: Conversations with influential women in the Australian media' by Catherine Hanger

(October 2006, no. 285)

... of Vogue Australia, says that she thought working for the magazine as a receptionist would be ‘amazing’, since she loved the world of ‘fashion, beauty and photography’: ‘what girl doesn’t?’ Certainly, ...

5. Patrick McCaughey reviews 'Australian Art' by Andrew Sayers

(May 2001, no. 230)

... beyond mere curiosity. All this might be fairly expected, but in a good chapter, ‘Colonial Art Worlds 1851–88’, Sayers introduces compellingly the photography of Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery renewing ...

6. Michelle Griffin reviews 'Sorry' by Gail Jones

(May 2007, no. 291)

A smattering of cultural theory is helpful when reading Gail Jones. The academic bones of her writing always show through the thin padding of her concept-driven stories: deconstructed photography in Sixty ...

7. Mark Macleod reviews 'Boss of the Pool' and 'The Princess Who Hated It' by Robin Klein

(October 1986, no. 85)

... for reading the books instead of selling them), library assistant, nurse, potter and copper enameller, and photography teacher. Sound familiar? Compare this publisher’s blurb with the biodata on any ...

8. Mary Eagle reviews 'Max Dupain’s Australia' and 'Max Dupain’s Australian Landscapes' by Max Dupain

(November 1988, no. 106)

... of them all and about the very technique of the photography, there was the same glaze and gleam of the “modem”’, writes Spender, ‘something making them seem released and uninhibited yet anonymous, as they ...

9. Luke Morgan reviews 'Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting' by David Alan Brown et al.

(October 2006, no. 285)

... he working methods of the Venetian painters has been greatly enlarged through X-radiographic and infrared reflectogram analyses of their works. Infrared photography and infrared reflectography have revealed  ...

10. Tim Byrne reviews 'Ratched' (Netflix)

(ABR Arts)

...  Fletcher, grabbing at undiscovered ledges – and she’s delicious; her wide red mouth and big brown eyes, fetishised by Nelson Cragg’s sumptuous photography, are wildly suggestive and seductive. Her tendenc ...

11. 'Editorial' by Peter Rose

(April 2001, no. 229)

... on our front covers throughout 2001. In this issue, Isobel Crombie, senior curator of photography at the NGV, writes about this most welcome development. Fittingly, our first cover together reproduces ...

12. Jim Davidson reviews 'Under the Rainbow: The life and times of E.W. Cole' by Richard Broinowski

(October 2020, no. 425)

... photography in the district; later he went on a four-month trip down the Murray with his business partner, producing stereoscopic photographs. Back in Castlemaine, other business ventures foundered. Bankrupt, ...

13. David Tissiman reviews 'Australia Dances: Creating Australian dance 1945–1965' by Alan Brissenden and Keith Glennon

(September 2010, no. 324)

... style. The standard of dance photography is particularly high in Australia, and examples by the too-little recognised Stringer, and others lesser known, generously support the text. Most of the images ...

14. Sue Kossew reviews 'Gail Jones: Word, image, ethics' by Tanya Dalziell

(September 2020, no. 424)

... in the form of photography and art – can form ‘connective ties’ between characters, there are, Dalziell suggests, ‘limits to the ethics they may be asked to enact’. In her final thematic chapter, Dalziell ...

15. Jane Clark reviews 'City Bushmen: The Heidelberg School and the rural mythology' by Leigh Astbury

(December 1985–January 1986, no. 77)

... and photography; derived in turn from a pictorial tradition centred on the bushman which had emerged as early as the 1850s in the work of S.T. Gill and other colonial artists. This evolution is fully documented ...

16. 'Biography: The Past has a Great Future' by Richard Holmes | 2008 HRC Seymour Lecture in Biography

(November 2008, no. 306)

... of celebrity, and the generation of pseudo-biographical forms, notably on the Internet (e.g. Facebook) the creative impact of biography on other media: film, television, photography, portraiture, and ...

17. John Mulvaney reviews 'Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land' by Donald Thomson, edited by Nicolas Peterson

(April 2004, no. 260)

Donald Thomson’s stature as a great Australian and a champion of Aboriginal rights is confirmed by this engaging compilation. Thomson was also a world leader in ethnographic field photography. Published ...

18. 'News deserts: A worrying portent for our democracy' by Johanna Leggatt

(April 2020, no. 420)

... photography resources. If AAP fails to find a respectable buyer or some limp iteration takes its place, it is abundantly clear that the loss will have widespread ramifications for the media’s ability to ...

19. James Antoniou reviews 'Mr Lear: A life of art and nonsense' by Jenny Uglow

(March 2020, no. 419)

... writings with these somewhat straightforward landscapes, which went out of fashion with the ascent of photography. Which brings us to the nonsense. Uglow writes that ‘Lear took up nonsense when tired, ...

20. Index for 2019: Nos 408–417 & online features

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... photography at the Austrlkaian Museuem 1857–1893, NewSouth/Australian Museum, 410/13, Philip Jones FLEMING, Chris, On Drugs, Giramondo, 416/20, James Antoniou FORBES, Angus, Global Planet Authority: ...