Michael Desmond, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2007 Prize.
Michael Desmond charts the path of portraiture, arriving at Julian Opie’s digital realm.
Nikki Toole has travelled the world to photograph skateboarders.
Gift of Michael Desmond 2012
Michael Desmond in conversation with University of Houston professor of philosophy Cynthia Freeland.
Michael Desmond discusses Fred Williams' portraits of friends, artist Clifton Pugh, David Aspden and writer Stephen Murray-Smith, and the stylistic connections between his portraits and landscapes.
Michael Desmond profiles the Australian songwriter and performer Neil Murray and his contribution to Australian music.
Exploring the photographs of Martin Schoeller, Michael Desmond delves into the uneasy pact that exists between celebrity and the camera.
Michael Desmond explores the portraiture of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
Michael Desmond introduces some of the ideas behind the exhibition Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age.
Technology has been a major influence on art since the invention of the camera, particularly in the field of portraiture.
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Michael Desmond examines the daguerreotype portraits created by American artist Chuck Close.
Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie 1887 by Frederick Woodhouse Snr. is a portrait of James Scobie, well known jockey and eminent horse trainer.
Bruce Petty's animated self portrait captures a life's journey compressed into a few minutes.
Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.