New book: Photography of The Age by Kathleen Whelan
$44.95 Newspaper photography in Australia from glass plate negatives to digital. Photographer, teacher and writer Kathleen Whelan pays tribute to the men and women with cameras who every day add meaning to the bald newspaper narrative with their pictures. Her…
Exhibition review: Richard Avedon – People
Ian Potter Museum of Art. Melbourne until 15 March 2015 As a photographer invested with fame, Avedon (1923-2004) coursed through the high echelons of the literary and cinematic world in which the US is both prolific and monopolistic. Occasionally he…
Exhibition Review: Photography meets Feminism. MGA
PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS FEMINISM: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1970s-’80s Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria Until 7 December 2014 In any epoch, it was easier to be male. In the 1970s and ’80s, for example, a male painter could feel supported by a…
Review: Melbourne Silver Mine’s Large Format Day and Unsensored14 Exhibition
Unsensored14 Collingwood Gallery Until 24 September The eighth annual group print show Unsensored14 at Collingwood Gallery has a wonderful selection of photographs from forty members of Melbourne Silver Mine Inc. For me the standout photographs in this un-curated show were:…
Book review: “Vivian Maier – Self-Portraits” by David Tatnall
Power House Books. 2013 AUD $65 The mystery surrounding Vivian Maier and her work is either that of genuine intrigue or marketing hype. Not much is known about her as a person or as an artist. There are conflicting stories…
New book: Minor White – Manifestations of the Spirit
Due out July 2014 USD 40.00 Controversial, misunderstood, and sometimes overlooked, Minor White (1908–1976) is one of the great photographers of the twentieth century, whose ideas exerted a powerful influence on a generation of photographers and still resonate today. His…
Review: The Sievers Project
The Sievers Project Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy. until 24 August 2014 Considered one of the world’s great industrial and architectural photographers, Wolfgang Sievers (1913-2007), a student of Bauhaus, fled Nazi Germany for Australia at the outbreak of WWII. In…
Exhibition review: The Road at MGA
Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill. Victoria until 31 August 2014 The ‘road’ has long been the subject of artistic expression, a symbol of the physical and allegorical paths we follow. In this group exhibition featuring eight artists – Micky…
Third review of Fomapan 400 4 x 5 by David Tatnall
Background I’ve been using large format cameras since the mid 1970’s. I tray develop negatives using ID11, ABC Pyro or Rodinal (now Adonal). I mainly use FP4+, TRI-X 320 and HP5+. I have made the test negatives for this review…
Exhibition Review: The Sievers Project
Centre for Comtemporary Photography. Fitzroy until 31 August 2014 Younger artists could be forgiven for not knowing of Wolfgang Sievers, the German photographer who fled his homeland in 1938 after the Nazis tried to engage him as an aerial photographer…
