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photography
Books & arts
What does it mean to photograph a street?
Richard Johnstone
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
A country big enough to disappear in
Annika Lems
27 May 2014
Katrin Koenning’s photographs form a landscape of intimate moments, writes
Annika Lems
From the archive
The humane and sympathetic eye of Sam Hood
Richard Johnstone
24 March 2014
The prolific photographer captured Sydney life in the first half of the twentieth century
Books & arts
Then and now, now and then
Richard Johnstone
14 November 2013
Richard Johnstone
explores the art of rephotography
National affairs
How Merlin and Bayliss worked their magic
Richard Johnstone
24 April 2013
The State Library of New South Wales’s breathtaking trove of photographs from the 1870s
Correspondents
France’s first facebooks
Daniel Nethery
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
A world of our own making
Brett Evans
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
Olegas Truchanas’s Lake Pedder
Ian McShane
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
Photographic moments, constructed and decisive
Terry Lane
17 August 2011
Terry Lane
reviews books of photographs by Wolfgang Sievers and the Melbourne-based MAP group
Books & arts
Art in internment
Glenn Nicholls
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
Artist or documenter?
Terry Lane
24 February 2011
Terry Lane
on the career and life of one of America’s great photographers, Berenice Abbott
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