The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.
The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
Michael Desmond looks at the history of the Vanity Fair magazine in conjunction with the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
As the National Portrait Gallery opens its exhibition of portrait and figurative work by veteran photographer Sam Haskins, the artist reflects on the highlights of his fifty-year career so far.
Nici Cumpston immerses herself in the collective vision of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Corinna Cullen on the symbolic power of pandemic-related imagery over the ages.
Penelope Grist reminisces about the halcyon days of a print icon, before the infusion of the internet’s shades of grey.
