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
Books & arts
27 May 2014
Katrin Koenning’s photographs form a landscape of intimate moments, writes Annika Lems
From the archive
24 March 2014
The prolific photographer captured Sydney life in the first half of the twentieth century
Books & arts
14 November 2013
Richard Johnstone explores the art of rephotography
National affairs
24 April 2013
The State Library of New South Wales’s breathtaking trove of photographs from the 1870s
31 May 2012
A recent French exhibition traced the rise of the photograph as a proof of identity and a form of surveillance, writes Daniel Nethery
Essays & reportage
17 February 2012
Without realising it, we seem to have entered a new geological epoch. Brett Evans looks at how we got there and what it means
Books & arts
15 November 2011
Ian McShane reviews Natasha Cica’s account of the life of wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas and his role in the campaign to save Lake Pedder
Books & arts
17 August 2011
Terry Lane reviews books of photographs by Wolfgang Sievers and the Melbourne-based MAP group
Books & arts
12 May 2011
Deported after the first world war, Paul Dubotzki had created a remarkable record of life as an internee, writes Glenn Nicholls
Books & arts
24 February 2011
Terry Lane on the career and life of one of America’s great photographers, Berenice Abbott