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Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.
Representations of the inhabitants of the new world expose the complexities of the colonisers' intentions.
Athol Shmith’s photographs contributed to the emergence of a new vision of Australian womanhood.
The photographs from Matthew Sleeth's tour of duty series look more like advertisements than images of war.
Diana O’Neil on Noel Counihan’s vivid 1971 portrait of Alan Marshall.
The National Portrait Gallery's acquisition of the portrait of Edward John Eyre by pioneering English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’.
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the gift of two striking paintings by the Australian artist Ken Done AM.
Barry York charts the course from childhood request to autographed celebrity portrait anthology.
Ron Ramsey, former Director of Cultural Relations at the Embassy of Australia interviewed NPG Washington Director, Marc Pachter, about their building renovations.
Tony Curran ponders whether our phones can change the course of painting.
Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
Karen Vickery delights in a thespian thread of the Australian yarn.
Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.
Preserving stories, subverting power and posing nude: Benjamin Law explores the potency and persuasiveness of portraiture.