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Time and light

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.

William Yang

Recorded 2022

WHO ARE YOU

Featuring 130 works across painting, film, photography, screen printing, sculpture, and then some – it explores our inner worlds, outer selves, intimacy, isolation, celebrity and more.

Kate

The two portraits that I've chosen to compare and contrast and to bring together a self portrait by John Brack in 1955, and William Yang, Self Portrait #2.

William Yang

William Yang on his heritage and becoming a photographer in the 70s.

Portrait 67

William Yang on his autobiographical self portraits, David Parker's 1970s and 80s Melbourne music photographs, seven-time NPPP finalist Chris Budgeon, and Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis.

Miscellaneous obsessions

William Yang shares the stories behind his autobiographical self portraits that celebrate his cultural heritage and identity.

Self Portrait #2, 1947/2007

Purchased 2022

William, Randwick, 1975/2008

Purchased 2022

William in Scholar's Costume, 1984/2008

Purchased 2022

Self Portrait with Light Meter, 1987/2007

Purchased 2022

Self Portrait #1, 1992/2007

Purchased 2022

My Family in Front of Our Old Home, 1992

Purchased 2022

Miscellaneous Obsessions #1, My Living Room, Bondi, 2000

Purchased 2022

Self Portrait #5, 2008

Purchased 2022

William at Queensland University, 1968/2008

Gift of the artist 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

From riot to revelry

Pride, protest, panache

Of plague and portraits

Corinna Cullen on the symbolic power of pandemic-related imagery over the ages.

Poof, Gay Mardi Gras, 1984

Nexus, Gay Mardi Gras, 1981

Seduce, Amuse, Entertain

Michael Desmond, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2007 Prize.

Portrait Donors

Geoffrey Rush, 2006

Patrick White by William Yang

An interview with photographer William Yang who recalls his encounters with the author Patrick White.

White Whiteley

Eleven works by Brett Whiteley, centred around his scintillating 'Patrick White at Centennial Park 1979-1980'.

Portrait 29

This issue of Portrait Magazine includes William Bligh, Lionel Rose, Richard Larter, Layne Beachley, William Yang and more.

Lust for life

Celebrated Sydney-based photographer and performer William Yang was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to produce a new performance work that premiered at the opening of the Gallery's new building.

Seduce Amuse Entertain

Michael Desmond profiles a handful of the entrants in first National Photographic Portrait Prize and notes emerging themes and categories.

Reveries

Featuring works by Australian and New Zealand photographers from the late 1970s up to the present day Reveries focuses on images made in the presence of or consciousness of death.

Reveries

The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.

Australian Visit

The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.

To Look Within

This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present

POL

POL was a magazine that ran from 1969 to 1986

Peter Allen, 1980

Purchased 2003

Kate Fitzpatrick, 1983

Purchased 2003

Mel Gibson, 1982

Purchased 2003

Martin Sharp, 1980

Purchased 2003

William Yang

William Yang's art is about the telling of stories, his work is an intriguing mixture of philosophy, autobiography, social history and documentary imbued with a sense of the artist's own curiosity, humanity and humour

Judy Davis, 1981

Purchased 1998

Patrick White #1, 1980

Purchased 1998