Australian Vernacular photography offers a glimpse at our reality
The Art Gallery NSW is presenting its latest exhibition, Australian vernacular photography. It explores the Australian photograph landscape from the late…
Category: Photography
The default history of photography is presented as art, but it shouldn’t
Photographs are everywhere. We understand what they are and why we use them. There are photographs everywhere. In the last…
New centre reveals the role of photography in shaping
The new centre will not only provide a new home to the extensive V&A photography collection, which dates back to…
Glamour photography makes suburban stars of us all
One of these businesses, Starshots, with its 16 franchised studios across Australia, is nicely nestled in the suburban landscape. It advertises…
Photography Exhibitions That Define Australia
The first exhibition in the Museum Sydney, NSW 1855. Lithograph after an 1854 daguerreotype taken by James Gow by F.…
Black people used photography to create social change
This article, using images from the David V. Tinder collection of Michigan Photography in the William L. Clements Library of…
Take better photos on your smartphone with computational photography
If you take a picture with your smartphone, it could perform over a trillion operations just for that one image. Yes, you…
Edwin Land’s Polaroid cameras have been a part of our lives
Every minute, a little girl will ask to see the picture her parents have just taken. We can now see…
The Village Voice photographers captured the change and turmoil
The Village Voice, America’s first alternative weeklies, shut down in late August. Social justice movements lost their biggest cheerleader. The Voice,…
Monster films evoke adventure but also the ‘dangers’ of tropical climates
The new monster movie Godzilla vs. Kong allows audiences to travel from their couches. Before you picture a tropical getaway, perhaps in…