Almost 4,000 Australian plant species have never been photographed in the field, particularly in remote corners of the country. Without a proper record, they could die out without us even knowing.
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Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media at the Art Gallery of South Australia is a brilliant new exhibition into the little explored side of the pop master.
Smartphone cameras tend to be more advanced than their clunky, point-and-shoot predecessors. But the allure of cameras from the early 2000s reflects a broader search for meaning.
Sydneyphiles remounts Yang’s 1977 exhibition, documenting mainstream Sydney and the illegal gay party scene.
To read a “memoir” by Janet Malcolm is to enter a realm where the very idea of memoir will be treated with mistrust.
Susan Sontag’s sense of the danger of a photographic relationship to reality is not only relevant today, but positively prescient.
A new image has been taken of the whole Earth 50 years after the first - revealing noticeable changes to its surface.
Through the choice of images in publications, women and children of colour in low and middle income countries were treated with less dignity and respect than those in high income countries.
Bringing colour and emotional depth, Baunbach’s adaptation is a good companion to DeLillo’s searing novel.
In a 1959 essay, Capote noted how Avedon seemed to capture ‘every hard-earned crow’s foot’ in his subjects – perhaps not realizing that he would one day be photographed by that same unvarnished gaze.
Dora Maar was an outstanding photographer but her work has been overshadowed by the fact that she was Pablo Picasso’s partner.
John Banville calls Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill’s Hotel, ‘an inexplicably neglected 20th-century masterpiece’. Carol Lefevre shares her fascination with William Trevor’s ‘crazed’ photographer Ivy Eckdorf.
From plane stairs that lead nowhere to paintings of empty towns, these artists depict the experience of Albanian immigrants.
As a migrant family, participating in this ritual made us feel and appear more Australian, if only to ourselves.
Blue Marble is the last photograph of the whole Earth taken by an actual human using analogue film: developed in a darkroom when the crew returned to Earth.
Balenciaga blamed the photographer for a now-pulled advert which featured sexually charged imagery of children – as an advertising expert, it’s hard to believe the furore wasn’t planned.
Under COVID travel restrictions, I couldn’t travel to Pitta Pitta Country. Instead, I travelled to Country through Google Maps.
An award-winning photographer reflects on iconic images of the late monarch and pictures a nation in mourning
Coming together for a portrait creates playful opportunities for social interactions among strangers.
Young queer people growing up in rural areas don’t necessarily need to flee their communities to find safety and acceptance.
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Associate Professor of Visual Communication in the School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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