Books & arts
25 June 2024
AI photos are there aplenty, but who is slowing down to look at them?
Books & arts
23 January 2024
Three photo exhibitions map out different points on the spectrum between reality and art
Books & arts
23 August 2023
Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland invites the viewer to pay close attention
Books & arts
2 June 2023
What’s different about photos generated with AI?
Books & arts
9 March 2023
Enthusiasm for this early form of colour photography might have been shortlived, but it left behind many remarkable images
Books & arts
15 February 2023
Can photographs unlock the past? Janet Malcolm isn’t so sure
Essays & reportage
3 November 2022
While Melburnians watch The Lost City of Melbourne, Sydneysiders debate Barangaroo
From the archive
28 September 2022
What explains the Belgian novelist’s enduring popularity?
Books & arts
19 November 2021
A mass photography project shows why an iconic image of the pandemic has proved elusive
Books & arts
26 September 2020
Behind Henri Cartier-Bresson and his high-profile colleagues at Magnum Photos was a talented backroom staff
From the archive
24 October 2019
Despite disappearing from public view for decades, Olive Cotton was still gripped by photography’s artistic potential
Books & arts
10 July 2019
Books | Does incongruity always explain why some things seems funny and others don’t?
From the archive
16 November 2018
Peter Jackson’s vivid account of the Great War is also a tribute to the art of the cinema
Books & arts
7 August 2017
Photography | Daniel Berehulak meticulously records individuals caught up in history
Books & arts
27 April 2017
Photography | There’s not a selfie in sight at this year’s exhibition of National Photographic Portrait Prize finalists
Books & arts
3 April 2017
Photography | Bill Henson’s new exhibition deftly connects life and art
Books & arts
19 December 2016
With so much happening in front of the camera, there isn’t a lot of time for mobile photographers to look back
Books & arts
17 February 2016
Photography | The National Gallery of Australia’s current exhibition makes the case for the standout image, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
17 November 2015
Photography | Tony Mott didn’t so much fall into photography as throw himself into it, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
24 August 2015
After taking up photography at forty-eight, Julia Margaret Cameron produced a remarkable and distinctive body of work
Books & arts
29 May 2015
Photography | Richard Johnstone reviews the finalists in this year’s Head On Portrait Prize
Books & arts
13 April 2015
Photography | A new exhibition makes illuminating connections across Australian photographic history, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
23 February 2015
Photography | Unlike conventional war photography, aftermath photographs record consequences and allow us to explore the significance of what’s depicted, writes…
Books & arts
20 November 2014
Melbourne-born photographer Ashley Gilbertson has abandoned action photography for a different way of depicting warfare, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
8 November 2014
From the archive | Remember Me: The Lost Diggers of Vignacourt is on show in Sydney until 15 January 2015. Richard Johnstone reviewed its Canberra run…
Books & arts
20 October 2014
Although he is best known as a war photographer, Don McCullin has aimed to do much more than record his own adventures, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
1 October 2014
Photographer Jane Bown sought to unearth something essential and make it visible
Books & arts
27 June 2014
Where it once depicted the urban landscape, with or without human figures, street photography now captures people wherever they might be, writes Richard Johnstone
From the archive
24 March 2014
The prolific photographer captured Sydney life in the first half of the twentieth century
Books & arts
18 March 2014
The continuing popularity of tattoos is a paradox, writes Richard Johnstone. Which other fashion refuses to acknowledge a use-by date?