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31. Index for 2023: Nos 450–460 & online features

(Indexes)

... Tim Byrne, online only Worstward Ho (Victorian Theatre Company), Ben Brooker, online only Visual Arts Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media (The Art Gallery of South Australia), 452/54, Patrick ...

32. Andrew van der Vlies reviews ‘Tremor’ by Teju Cole

(April 2024, no. 463)

... In this moving, messy, multiply focalised narrative, however, the hostile context is also the universe itself. Art in its many forms, from music to photography, painting to film, offers the only reliable ...

33. 'Perfect Days: A beautiful, humane film from Wim Wenders' by Richard Leathe

(ABR Arts)

... style is a clear influence on director of photography Franz Lustig in the dream sequences that are interspersed throughout Perfect Days, and the film in general feels like a response and homage to the ...

34. Maggie Nolan reviews ‘One Another’ by Gail Jones

(March 2024, no. 462)

... life, as surely as it did Conrad’s. The markers of modernity – trains, cinema, photography – pervade the novel, and empire and its trappings are keenly observed, and felt, in both Helen’s and Conrad’s ...

35. ‘Art Museums in an Age of Bread and Circuses’ by Christopher R. Marshall

(March 2006, no. 279)

... 2005 brought the reopening of the University of Melbourne’s Ian Potter Museum of Art, the opening of the new Centre for Contemporary Photography by Sean Godsell Architects, the closure of the National ...

36. Neil Clerehan reviews ‘Collins: The story of Australia’s premier street’ by Judith Raphael Buckrich and ‘Go! Melbourne: Melbourne in the sixties’ edited by Seamus O’Hanlon and Tanja Luckins

(March 2006, no. 279)

... provenance and more than a smattering of inaccuracies: but it has pictures. These are mostly from the State Library of Victoria, and even those dating from the early years of outside photography provide ...

37. Jason Smith reviews ‘Fiona Hall’ by Julie Ewington

(March 2006, no. 279)

For her participation in the 2002 Adelaide Biennial, Fiona Hall encapsulated her recent practice and its emphases on the fragilities of ecosystems, and on the instability of the social and political structures ...

38. Michelle Griffin reviews ‘The Bone House: Essays’ by Beverley Farmer

(February 2006, no. 278)

... is the second, ‘The Seeing Eye’, a meditation on light, photography and vision that mixes myth, art and science to remarkable effect. She calls on Edvard Munch, the painter who acts as her familiar throughout ...

39. Helen Ennis reviews ‘Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians’ by Jane Lydon

(August 2006, no. 283)

... control over their visual representation, but theatricality is not unusual in colonial photography (the performative aspects of Captain Samuel Sweet’s work immediately comes to mind). Theatricality, of ...

40. Books of the Year 2003

(December 2003–January 2004, no. 257)

... ruins a grotesquely dysfunctional family. Diane Arbus’s Revelations (Jonathan Cape) is the definitive book on her photography, what she claims as ‘the ceremonial, curious and commonplace’. Nicholas Jose ...

41. Commentary | National News by Helen Ennis

(November 2003, no. 256)

... Malkovich, surreal and delightful, and it characterises my last few months at the National Library, where I have been curating a two-part exhibition, In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s–2000 (the ...

42. Susan van Wyk reviews 'Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas' by Helen Enni

(November 2002, no. 246)

... photographer, but Ennis shows that he was not simply interested in photographing a scene as it appeared before him. For this adventurer, exploration and photography went hand in hand. Hurley was renowned ...

43. Maria Takolander reviews 'Elsewhere' by John Matee

(June 2008, no. 302)

... poet’s history, and the unspeakable takes on a more exotic and metaphysical aspect. The poems here also tend to be more imagistic, which Mateer often explicitly connects not only to tourism and photography ...

44. Isobel Crombie reviews ‘Faces of the Living Dead: The belief in spirit photography’ by Martyn Jolly

(November 2006, no. 286)

Photography has always had a close relationship with death, indeed one of the more poignant catch cries of early portrait photography exhorted clients to ‘secure the shadow, before the substance fade’. ...

45. Gregory Kratzmann reviews 'Other Summers' by Stephen Edga

(December 2006–January 2007, no. 287)

... fallacy and turned    Leftwards or right to seek the fabled zone … Stephen Edgar’s writing is analogous to the activity of the photographer in ‘Photography for Beginners’: both have the ability ...

46. Paul Brunton reviews 'Life After Death: The art of the obituary' by Nigel Starc

(December 2006–January 2007, no. 287)

... the use of photography on the obituary page, while at The Times the obituary of our own Robert Helpmann in 1986 ushered in a period of frankness about sexual life. This revival was transported to Australia, ...

47. Ilana Snyder reviews 'How Images Think' by Ron Burnet

(May 2004, no. 261)

... integral to television, film, photography, animation, video games and the Internet, and are used increasingly as the main medium through which we interact and communicate with each other. Although we ...

48. John McPhee reviews eight art books

(August 2004, no. 263)

... the books attractive to those familiar with the collections. While individual designers are acknowledged, it is obvious that a standard format has been used. High-quality photography appears throughout ...

49. Susan Van Wyk reviews 'Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas' by Helen Enni

(November 2002, no. 246)

... photographer, but Ennis shows that he was not simply interested in photographing a scene as it appeared before him. For this adventurer, exploration and photography went hand in hand. Hurley was renowned ...

50. 'Maestro: A handsomely rendered biopic of Leonard Bernstein' by Jordan Prosse

(ABR Arts)

...  We meet Bernstein (played by Cooper) in 1943 (and in sumptuous 4:3 black-and-white photography) on the day he is summoned, at very short notice, to conduct for the New York Philharmonic, throwing him ...