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Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.
Lecture by Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, given at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra on 28 April 2006.
Nici Cumpston immerses herself in the collective vision of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020.
Scientists tend to conjure up images of men in white coats in labs but this is just one stereotype in an evolving history of how we have perceived scientists, and how their profession has been understood over the years.
Michael Desmond charts the path of portraiture, arriving at Julian Opie’s digital realm.
David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery director, the late Angus Trumble.
Born in Surakarta (Solo), Indonesia in 1969, Melati Suryodarmo’s first degree was in international relations.
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
Biographies of participants in the Writing lives, revealing lives forum.
Some years ago my colleague Andrea Wolk Rager and I spent several days in the darkened basement of a Rothschild Bank, inspecting every one of the nearly 700 autochromes created immediately before World War I by the youthful Lionel de Rothschild.
Inga Walton sheds light on a portraiture collection usually only seen by students and teachers at Melbourne University.
Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
Traudi Allen discovers sensitivity, humour and fine draughtsmanship in the portraiture of John Perceval.
Diana Warnes explores the lives of Hal and Katherine 'Kate' Hattam through their portraits painted by Fred Williams and Clifton Pugh.
A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.