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Hottie's Snifter to port
Magazine article by Peter Jeffrey, 2016
Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.
Thinking about architecture and portraiture
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2009
Dr Christopher Chapman describes the experimental exhibition Portraits + Architecture
The Vanity model
Magazine article by David Friend, 2009
Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.
Selfhood transcended
Magazine article by Dr Anne Sanders and Dr Christopher Chapman, 2018
Anne Sanders and Christopher Chapman bring passionate characterisation to Express Yourself, the Portrait Gallery collection exhibition celebrating iconoclastic Australians.
The Avedon effect
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2013
Dr Christopher Chapman explores how we can understand Richard Avedon's photographs.
Powerful Indigenous women
Magazine article by June Oscar AO, 2017
June Oscar AO lauds three iconic Aboriginal figures in the Portrait Gallery collection who have inspired and influenced her.
Black tie or wombat: How formal should I go?
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2008
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
No small wonder
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2015
Joanna Gilmour describes how artist Sam Leach works on a small scale to grand effect.
Paper, boy
Magazine article by Peter Wilmoth, 2016
Peter Wilmoth’s boy-journalist toolkit for antagonising an Australian political giant.