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A media scholar and photographer walks you through the options for archiving all those photos you’re collecting on your phone.
Who was Lee Miller, the subject of Kate Winslet’s new biopic?
Even though Bernal is known as the father of Chicano photography, his work has long been overlooked. Now he’s the subject of a new exhibition at the University of Arizona.
In 1986 the Australia Council paid for a young photographer to live for a year in Berlin. Anne Zahalka’s subsequent career shows this was money well spent.
The work of Hiroshi Sugimoto is now on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art. His photographs reveal his reverence for technique.
Like with most things in life, the use of technology to capture nature comes with pros and cons. How might our phone lens’ be impacting our relationship with the natural world?
Evan Vucci’s Trump photograph is powerful for its composition and its nod to history – and how it could shape our history of the future.
Few observations exist from before the 2002 Larsen B Ice Shelf collapse. We’ve now estimated how many billions of tons of glacier ice were lost – and what it means for the future.
In a culture that seeks to make older women invisible, Julie Rrap’s latest exhibit, Past Continuous, is a gloriously defiant statement of self.
A century ago, the French writer and poet André Breton penned his ‘Manifesto of Surrealism,’ launching an art movement known for creating bizarre hybrids of words and images.
Rewilding is about finding ways to let nature thrive and regenerate. Around the world, cities and community projects are doing just that.
The Australian photographer, who has died at 65, originally trained as a painter and brought a certain sensibility of the painter’s hand to her practice.
Phone cameras are an example of what’s called computational photography. Digital tools built into these cameras can enhance your images in real time.
Well known foreign correspondents often put their own ideological spin on the Spanish Civil War.
The aurora was noticeable with the naked eye – but was spectacular through a camera lens.
The members of The Blue Rider weren’t thinking about art in the way we do today.
I identified six dimensions which will impact the quality of photographs. Here’s what I learnt – and what you can apply to your own photos.
The author of a new biography of renowned New Zealand photographer Ans Westra explains how she and her art were in many ways inseparable.
Mothers are smudged out and poorly cloaked beneath drapes in these 19th century portraits. But these photos are not so much relics of shoddy photography than an ode to childhood.
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Associate Head of School, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication. Editor in chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
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