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Time and light

In Gallery Seven

Daily from Friday 21 July until Sunday 24 September 2023
James, Rebecca and Sam Mapu
Collection display in Gallery Six, August 2023
1 James, Rebecca and Sam Mapu, 2021 James Tylor, Craig Tuffin, Dr Elisa deCourcy. © Craig Tuffin and Dr Elisa deCourcy. James Tylor/Copyright Agency, 2023. 2 Collection display in Gallery Six, August 2023.

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Photography accounts for almost half of the National Portrait Gallery's collection. This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.

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William St Leonards Robertson
Heath
Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal Tribe
1 William St Leonards Robertson, c. 1865 an unknown artist. 2 Heath, 2020 (printed 2022) Brett Canét-Gibson. © Brett Canét-Gibson. 3 Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal Tribe, 1992 (printed 2009) George Fetting. © George Fetting/Copyright Agency, 2023.
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