Books & arts
What happened next
Richard Johnstone
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
The compulsion in the quest
Sylvia Lawson
18 December 2014
Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Particle Fever, The Dark Horse and Finding Vivian Maier, and farewells Margaret and David
Books & arts
Places left behind
Richard Johnstone
20 November 2014
Melbourne-born photographer Ashley Gilbertson has abandoned action photography for a different way of depicting warfare, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
“Even my darkroom is a haunted place”
Richard Johnstone
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
Retrospective
Ah, yes, there you are
Richard Johnstone
16 October 2014
Photographer Jane Bown sought to unearth something essential and make it visible
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
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
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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