It’s Australia Day 2013—Toni Booth delves into our collection to mark 225 years since the First Fleet landed in Sydney Cove in 1788.
From the very first photographic images to the work of contemporary photographers, photography is one of our major areas of expertise and is represented throughout our collection.
Colin Harding looks at one of the major figures in early British photography.
On 16 January 2013, Flickr Commons celebrated its fifth birthday. To showcase its diversity, founding member the Library of Congress asked 56 member institutions to submit their most viewed photographs.
Our Photography Curator Colin Harding looks back at his time spent with legendary photographer Don McCullin.
Have technological pursuits replaced more traditional virtuous intentions? We take a look at what inspiration can be found for this year‘s resolutions in our collection.
Late last year we lost two major figures associated with the cinema, both of whom had links to the Museum: the photographer Cornel Lucas and the composer Richard Rodney Bennett.
In a case that dragged on for decades, how did a relatively unknown clergyman and amateur photographer take on the Goliath of Eastman Kodak Company?
As part of Parliament Week 2012, curator Colin Harding has made a special selection of photographs from our collection showing the Houses of Parliament.
Roy Exley explores the art of the still life photograph and its 200-year history.
In the third and final post of the series, Colin Harding looks at the role played by celluloid in the invention and development of moving pictures.
Brian Liddy investigates the still life in art and photography—with its roots in the vanitas tradition, is the genre inherently morbid?
For Remembrance Day, we’ve chosen a series of images of Australian servicemen photographed during the First World War.