The Social Landscape

Photographs by Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander and Nicholas Nixon

Exhibition
13 Dec 1986 – 1 Feb 1987

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Sex by the pool in California Cool

Three orange balls are mid-air with a bright blue sky and the tops of two palm trees in the background

Anne O'Hehir uncovers the west coast look created through the lens of the sun-bathed LA photographers of the 1960s and 70s.

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Julia Margaret Cameron’s Christabel 1866

A sepia tone photo of a woman with long hair from 1886

Shaun Lakin and Anne O’Hehir explore the provenance of the National Gallery’s print of one of Julia Margaret Cameron’s most famous photographs.

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Vivienne Westwood
34 Years in Fashion

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Pair of Red stiletto shoes with white flower detailing

12 Nov 2004 – 30 Jan 2005

This exhibition presented a visual exploration of the culture of fashion from the 1970s onwards through Westwood's vision.

Exhibition

William Robinson
A Retrospective

Past Exhibition
Painting of landscape of trees reflecting in a body of water

14 Dec 2001 – 10 Mar 2002

This exhibition was one of the first retrospective exhibition of work by William Robinson, one of Australia's senior contemporary landscape artists.

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Photo blog: Cazneaux portrait restored to former glory

National Gallery Senior Paper Conservator Andrea Wise does a miraculous restoration of Harold Cazneaux’s portrait of Doris Zinkeisen from 1929

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Nan Goldin’s lens on relationships
The ballad of sexual dependency

Colour Cibachrome photograph of a man and a woman, with the woman's arms around his neck smiling.

Curator of Photography Anne O’Hehir probes Nan Goldin’s The ballad of sexual dependency (1986) – the defining work of Goldin’s life.

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Essay

Olive Cotton: Resisting definition

Curator Shaune Lakin discusses the small of acts of resistance evident in the work of artist Olive Cotton.

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Ren Hang: Desire and our freedom to express it

A photograph of a man with hair in his mouth

Dr Shaune Lakin, Senior Curator of Photography, examines the work of Chinese photographer, poet and provocateur, the late Ren Hang.

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Exhibition

Dance Hall Days
French posters from Chéret to Toulouse-Lautrec

Past Exhibition
A lithograph poster of a woman enjoying a glass of absinthe and the words absinthe vichet are in red text against a green banner.

27 Jun 1998 – 25 Oct 1998

Colour lithography posters from late 19th century Paris advertised and celebrated the popular dance halls and cafés-concerts.