Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Ann Moyal AM (1926-2019), historian, was educated in Sydney and Canberra, and gained her first class honours degree in Arts from the University of Sydney in 1947.
1 portrait in the collection
I think the most important thing in capturing candid shots is to never take the photo when people are expecting you to press the shutter. The more poignant moments are not the stock standard images of people looking at the camera smiling but after or before when they are really interacting with each other.
Biographies of participants in the Writing lives, revealing lives forum.
Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them.
Sean Davey captures the portrait of a nation renewed.
Mark Strizic's work crosses a broad spectrum of photographic fields including urban, industrial, commercial, and architectural photography.
Over the last five years the National Portrait Gallery has developed a collection of portrait photographs that reflects both the strength and diversity of Australian achievement as well as the talents of our photographers.
Sarah Engledow pens a fond farewell to acclaimed science historian Ann Moyal.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
An interview with the photographer.
Inner Worlds evokes a broad view of psychology as a discipline. However, the specific interests of the practitioners whose portraits are included in the exhibition incorporate specialist areas including psychoanalysis.
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
