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Exhibition: ‘Renaissance Faces. Masterpieces of Italian Portraiture’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 25th August – 20th November 2011 . The Legend of the Surface, the Facies “Facies simultaneously signifies the singular air of a face, the particularity of its aspect, as well as the...
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Exhibition: ‘What’s in a face? aspects of portrait photography’ at the Art...
Exhibition dates: 24th September 2011 – 5th February 2012 . Many thankx to the Art Gallery of New South Wales for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs...
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Exhibition: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen: The Camera as a Mirror’ at the Moderna...
Exhibition dates: 18th February 2012 – 22nd April 2012 . Many thankx to the Moderna Museet for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: South Yarra and surrounds, 1994
. I am scanning my negatives made during the years 1991 – 1997 to preserve them in the form of an online archive as a process of active memory, so that the images are not lost forever. These...
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Exhibition: ‘Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion’ at NGV International, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 18th October 2013 – 2nd March 2014 . You saw it here first on Art Blart! What a gorgeous exhibition. It’s about time Melbourne had a bit of style put back into the National Gallery of...
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Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Exhibition dates: 9th August 2013 – 5th January 2014 . The first posting of a new year, and finally I get to do a posting on one of the greatest photographers of all time. Nobody has ever taken...
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Review: ‘Stephen Dupont / The White Sheet Series No. 1′ at Edmund Pearce...
Exhibition dates: 2nd April – 3rd May 2014 This is a wonderful exhibition by Stephen Dupont at Edmund Pearce Gallery. Using a 4″ x 5″ Polaroid type 55 and striping away the emulsion, Dupont is left...
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Japanese photographic album c.1920-30s Part 1
November 2014 I bought an anonymous Japanese family photographic album from Daylesford in country Victoria recently for $25 (US$20). There were many images missing, but the thirty that were present...
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Exhibition: ‘Nicholas Nixon: Forty Years of The Brown Sisters’ at the Museum...
Exhibition dates: 22nd November 2014 – 4th January 2015 Organized by Sarah Hermanson Meister, Curator, Department of Photography This is the most successful, long running group portrait series in the...
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Exhibition: ‘Witness at a Crossroads: Photographer Marc Riboud in Asia’ at...
Exhibition dates: 16th October 2014 – 23rd March 2015 I am not convinced by these. There are a couple of brilliant images in the posting, such as Forbidden City (Beijing, 1957) and Photography Fair...
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Japanese photographic album c.1920-30s Part 2
April 2015 After the blockbuster Tattoo posting, here is a rather more still, quiet posting. Another nine images rescued from the dustbin of history… I bought an anonymous Japanese family...
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Selection of images part 2
April 2015 Another selection of interesting images. My favourites: the weight of Weston’s Shipyard detail, Wilmington (1935); and the romanticism (Jean-François Millet-esque), sublime beauty of...
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Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron: from the Victoria and Albert Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 14th August – 25th October 2015 Curator: Dr Marta Weiss I’m heading up to Sydney on Thursday night, especially to see this exhibition on Friday at the Art Gallery of New South Wales...
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Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Exhibition dates: 28th November 2015 – 21st February 2016 Curator: Marta Weiss, Curator of Photographs at the V&A Another exhibition to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret...
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Exhibition: ‘Roberto Donetta Photographer and Seed Salesman from Bleniotal’...
Exhibition dates: 28th May – 4th September 2016 I have found a hidden gem in Roberto Donetta. He has become one of my favourite photographers, this seed salesman from Bleniotal, who died in obscurity...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn: Centennial’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
Exhibition dates: 24th April – 30th July 2017 Part 1 of this bumper posting, with some biographical information on the lesser known sitters. More to follow ~ Marcus The most comprehensive...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn: Centennial’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
Exhibition dates: 24th April – 30th July 2017 Irving Penn. The high priest of high modernist photography. I know a lot of people adore his photography but I am not an acolyte, quietly accepting...
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Exhibition: ‘Sit. Pose. Snap. Brisbane Portrait Photography 1850 – 1950’ at...
Exhibition dates: 24th March – 30th July 2017 Poul C Poulsen Bushman with a swag c. 1885 Cabinet photograph Poul C Poulsen Bushman with a swag (detail) c. 1885 Cabinet photograph This...
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Exhibition: ‘Lionel Wendt: Ceylon’ at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Exhibition dates: 10th June 2017 – 3rd September 2017 Lionel Wendt (1900-1944) No title Nd Private collection Courtesy Jhaveri Contemporary (London/Mumbai) © Lionel Wendt Glorious modernist...
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New work: ‘The Shape of Dreams’ 2013 – 2017 by Marcus Bunyan
December 2017 CLICK ON AND ENLARGE THE IMAGES BELOW TO SEE THE FULL SEQUENCE AND SPACING OF THE IMAGES Marcus Bunyan The Shape of Dreams (detail of sequence) 2013 – 2017 Digital photographs 42...
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