Born in 1943, photographer William Yang has spoken of having to 'come out' twice: first as a gay man and secondly in search of his Chinese identity. A new exhibition marks his career.
Hollywood movies have long leaned into colonial representations of the tropics: imagined as romantic palm-fringed coasts full of abundance, but also scary places full of pestilence and primitiveness.
The laws on filming, recording and in some cases distributing the images of another person in Australia are clear — and the potential consequences for the accused are substantial.
Portrait of Betty and Willis Coles by William Bullard from about 1902.
Courtesy of Frank Morrill, Clark University and the Worcester Art Museum
Conor Heffernan, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Greek statues, the Napoleonic wars and the advent of photography all played a role.
Japanese author Yukio Mishima speaks to Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers at Tokyo’s military garrison station on Nov. 25, 1970.
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Kirsten Cather, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Like a Rorschach test, the incident offers limitless interpretations. But newly published photographs of Yukio Mishima in his final weeks alive show an artist obsessed with scripting out death.
Dragon springtails (pictured) are widely distributed in forests of eastern Australia — yet they’re still largely unknown to science.
Nick Porch
Australia's invertebrates have an ancient lineage and a fascinating evolution. Get up close with macrophotography to discover tiny, unique animals you've probably never seen before.
Opiate of Opulence, from the series Horror Has A Face, Fiona Foley, 2017.
Courtesy of Andrew Baker Art Dealer
The Body Electric features ground-breaking photography and video from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, alongside more recent work from Australian and international artists.
Exclusive: the recent discovery of probably the oldest known surviving photograph of a Māori sheds light on the remarkable subject of Taika Waititi's new film project.
‘With Dad,’ Marlborough, Massachusetts, Oct. 29, 1998.
Stephen DiRado
What does an artist do when the subject is a disease as much as a person, and when the disease then subsumes the person – to the point where he can't recognize his own son?
Dorothea Lange’s famous Migrant Mother portrait, showing a mother of seven children in California, 1936.
US Library of Congress/Flickr
Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney and Sara Oscar, University of Technology Sydney
From Madonna and child to fierce matriarch, mothers have appeared in frame since photography began – even it sometimes they are just part of the furniture.
Marcia Macmillan’s winning landscape photograph: Whimsical Warrior.
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