Photography
Capturing Nature: Early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893 by Vanessa Finney
Roger Ballen’s art is not for the faint hearted; it is confronting, haunting, and at times repellent. It is also fascinating, brilliant, and jaw-dropping. These images seethe with malodorous discontent, menace, and psychosis. The best way to experience his photographs is to surrender and resist the desire to read the images literally ...
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Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos
Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second by Christian Ryan & Lillee & Thommo by Ian Brayshaw
Even young trees bear the signature of deep time, if not eternity. For most of humanity’s existence, men and women have looked upwards through trees, wondering at the tracery of their branches piercing the firmament, the domed lid of the earthly world. Recorded mythology confirms that trees have occupied that special place in every ancient belief system; rooted in ...
William Yang: Stories of Love and Death by Helena Grehan and Edward Scheer
This photograph taken around 1890 shows what was done through over-clearing and grazing. Fifteen years ago, our property on the Mornington Peninsula featured two overused stock dams filled with opaque brown water. The muddy edges had no vege ...