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21.
Ilana Snyder reviews 'How Images Think' by Ron Burnet
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(May 2004, no. 261)
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... integral to television, film, photography, animation, video games and the Internet, and are used increasingly as the main medium through which we interact and communicate with each other.
Although we ...
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John McPhee reviews eight art books
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(August 2004, no. 263)
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... the books attractive to those familiar with the collections.
While individual designers are acknowledged, it is obvious that a standard format has been used. High-quality photography appears throughout ...
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Susan Van Wyk reviews 'Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas' by Helen Enni
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(November 2002, no. 246)
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... photographer, but Ennis shows that he was not simply interested in photographing a scene as it appeared before him. For this adventurer, exploration and photography went hand in hand. Hurley was renowned ...
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'Maestro: A handsomely rendered biopic of Leonard Bernstein' by Jordan Prosse
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(ABR Arts)
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We meet Bernstein (played by Cooper) in 1943 (and in sumptuous 4:3 black-and-white photography) on the day he is summoned, at very short notice, to conduct for the New York Philharmonic, throwing him ...
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Hit with a Waddy
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(July–August 2008, no. 303)
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... and thought. Thirteen black-and-white portraits of children, spanning a hundred years of photography in Australia, have been drawn from the Pictures Collection at the National Library. Each has been paired ...
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Martin Duwell reviews ‘As We Draw Ourselves’ by Barry Hill
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(May 2008, no. 301)
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... here / nothing green remembers’ – water as a shaping force is a recurrent image.
All this moves us from the second section of the book to the first: poems based on images from art or photography. The ...
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Maya Linden reviews 'Shutterspeed' by A.J. Bett
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(October 2008, no. 305)
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... territory, following Dustin’s discovery of a photograph depicting the enigmatic Terry Pavish and Dustin’s subsequent, disturbed fixation on her. The theme of photography opens up a rich world of metaphor ...
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Geordie Williamson reviews ' Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and D.W. Winnicott' by Carol Mavor
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(September 2008, no. 304)
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Carol Mavor is professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester: a specialist in the field of Victorian photography who has written two earlier books on the subject. She is also ...
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Patrick McCaughey reviews ‘What’s wrong with contemporary art?’ by Peter Timms
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(August 2004, no. 263)
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... wilderness photography – ‘a defiantly traditionalist artform’ – has ‘gained so much art world credibility through its association with left-wing politics’.
Elsewhere, the tone swings giddily from the ...
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'Photography: Real and Imagined: An ambitious new exhibition at NGV' by Alison Stieven-Taylo
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(ABR Arts)
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Photography has held humanity in its thrall since its nascent years. Celebrated and contested, the photograph is said to have inherent power, making it both a vital, and also dangerous, medium. This exceptional ...
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Isobel Crombie reviews ‘Twelve Australian Photo Artists’ by Blair French and Daniel Palmer
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(September 2009, no. 314)
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Of all art forms, photography has probably had the most contentious and complex reception. Graduating from the ‘bastard child left on the doorstep of art’ in the 1840s to the darling of the art world for ...
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Marion May Campbell reviews 'The Summer Exercises' by Ross Gibso
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(May 2009, no. 311)
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Over the last two decades, Ross Gibson has earned an outstanding reputation for ground-breaking investigations into cultural memory, image and place, and for his strikingly innovative films and installations, ...
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'The National Gallery of Victoria – A New Partnership with ABR' by Dr Isobel Crombi
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(April 2001, no. 229)
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... with a broad range of creativity, so it seems fitting that it should also highlight photography, a medium that is not only one of the leading art forms of the modern era but also an area in which Australian ...
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Pam Macintyre reviews 'Joy Ride' by Tony Shillitoe and 'Straggler’s Reef' by Elaine Forrest
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(July 1999, no. 212)
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... that she can afford to go to Film and Television School, a choice inspired by her father’s career in photography; Carrie wants to find the treasure to please her father, who like her, has a passion for ...
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Sandra R. Phillips reviews 'The Welcome to Country Handbook: A Guide to Indigenous Australia' by Marcia Langto
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(October 2023, no. 458)
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... genre, is oriented to the experience of travel, with its revised and extended directory of Indigenous-owned or -operated tourism experiences, including maps and stunning photography by renowned photographer ...
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Sarah Scott reviews 'Modern Times: The untold story of modernism in Australia' by Ann Stephen, Philip Goad and Andrew McNamara (eds
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(December 2008–January 2009, no. 307)
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... articles written by academics, artists and curators from a range of different disciplines, including visual art, design, architecture, animation, fashion, popular culture, film and photography. These articles ...
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Veronica Brady reviews 'An Extravagant Talent' by Martin Mahon, 'Stigmata' by Bill Reed and 'A Bridge Over the Yarra' by Tom Lusco
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(March 1981, no. 28)
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... he rejects the aesthetics of photography to highlight the aesthetics of intuition, primarily by means of the language which calls attention to itself, to strangeness rather than to familiarity, and thus ...
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Children's and Young Adult Books of the Year 200
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(December 2009–January 2010, no. 317)
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... 4/09) features a young man enamoured of philosophy and photography – and a girl named Taryn.
Adrian Stirling’s début, Broken Glass (Penguin), is a tense tale about tough lives and times in a country ...
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Kyla McFarlane reviews 'Photogenic: Essays/photography/ccp 2000–2004' by Daniel Palmer (ed.
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(May 2006, no. 281)
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The annual series of lectures held at Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Photography are a lively tradition on the city’s cultural calendar, and are noted for both their critical currency and diversity ...
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Jon Dale reviews 'Extempore 2' edited by Miriam Zoli
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(December 2009–January 2010, no. 317)
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... about Extempore’s purpose. Its desire to merge music writing, interviews with musicians, photography and jazz-ish poetry and fiction is admirable, but it lacks interrogative engagement and comes across ...
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'All Rise: A euphoric evening led by Wynton Masalis' by Des Cowle
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(ABR Arts)
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... time in a while, swing was back on the menu.
The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (with chorus) performing All Rise (photograph by Nico Photography).
Fast forward ...
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Stathis Gauntlett reviews 'The Bird, The Belltower' by Peter Lyssioti
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(May 2006, no. 281)
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... but commiserated at the intractability of the recurrent puns on ‘snap’ in the texts about photography.
A translation issue might be seen to arise over the extent to which the poet’s voice has been captured ...
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'Godland: An Icelandic film that stares down the lens' by Stefan Solomo
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(ABR Arts)
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... of the narrative and rushing waters of the film’s windblown Icelandic setting. While still innovative, in this case such shots are by no means extraneous, and are inspired precisely by the focus on photography ...
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Kate McFayden reviews Meanjin 66 and Island 109
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(December 2007–January 2008, no. 297)
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... Richardson contributes a fascinating short essay discussing the privacy issues around unstaged street photography. In the 1930s and 1940s, American social realist photographer Walker Evans took a series ...
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Open Page with Belinda Alexandra
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(August 2023, no. 456)
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Belinda Alexandra is the daughter of a Russian mother and an Australian father and has been an intrepid traveller since her youth. Her love of other cultures is matched by her passion for her home country, ...
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'The Mannequin' by Rowan Heath | Jolley Prize 2023 (winner
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(August 2023, no. 456)
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... added: ‘How are the kids holding up? Your youngest would be out of school now.’
‘Yeah.’
‘What’s he doing? Still studying?’
The last Paul had heard, he’d dropped out of science for a photography course. ...
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Ian Gibbins reviews 'Earth Under Fire' by Gary Braasc
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(December 2007–January 2008, no. 297)
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... volume, skilfully laid out to highlight the author’s outstanding photography. However, it is much more than a collection of stunning landscapes, cityscapes and portraits of their inhabitants. Many unusual ...
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'Rembrandt: True to Life: Etched with feeling' by Roger Benjami
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(ABR Arts)
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... on a symphonic scale, he was also a supreme portraitist and master of the self-portrait in oils (he made more than forty). Public familiarity with Rembrandt’s oeuvre in the centuries before photography ...
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'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency: The unflinching gaze of Nan Goldin' by Saskia Beude
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(ABR Arts)
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... sheer proliferation, cinematic quality and narrative allusions meant that the work veered as much towards film as towards any notion of photography as the ‘decisive’ single take. Each slideshow was different, ...
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Evelyn Juers reviews 'Lucia's Measure' by Angela Malo
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(October 2000, no. 225)
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... with certain powers of invocation, much like the magic of the silver particles of photography. Hill End became the novel’s Reedy Creek, a place infinitely embroidered with the history and folklore of its ...