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Course: Commencing Tuesday 4th March 2008 and running until 29th April (2-4pm), 'A History of Photography'.
Starting with the discoveries of Aristotle we will follow the evolution of photography up to - but not including - the Digital Age. On the technical side, we will see how the Camera Obscura eventually transformed into the Hassleblad which went to the Moon, and how Oh-so-slow Daguerreotypes eventually led to film which could 'stop' a bullet in full flight. And we will look at 'movements' and 'styles', the never-ending fight between those who saw photography as a 'science' and those who wanted it to be an 'art'... And all the way through, we will look at photographs, some well known, others obscure and forgotten.
Canberra to host Australia's first ever National Photography Festival.
The Festival, from 11 July to 12 October 2008, will celebrate photography's vital role in Australian life and history and highlight the national capital's rich photographic collections through exhibitions, conferences, and events. Twenty-eight institutions will host 36 exhibitions ranging from images taken by street people shown in a 'Homeless Gallery' to a gigantic retrospective look at Asia-Pacific photography from the 19th century to the 1940s at the National Gallery of Australia.
Click here to obtain the Draft program
Extract from Bain, G: A History of Nairnshire, Nairn Telegraph, 1893.
In 1893 George Bain, the editor of the Nairn 'Telegraph' newspaper, published his A History of Nairnshire. Republished in 1923, both editions are now rare and expensive. As far as I could discover, there is only one copy in Australia, in the State Library of Western Australia. Daunted at the prospect of reading 600 pages in 10 days (the period of the inter-library loan) while confined to the National Library here in Canberra, I paid a laird's ransom and bought my own copy. [MORE]
To start at the beginning...
I was born in Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales in 1936. My family had a small apple orchard and farm surrounded by miles of bush, an hour's walk from the small village of Exeter. [MORE]