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Exhibitions

Exhibition Future

Exhibition Current

Passage The Art of Atong Atem

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Plant Life The Nature of Design

Exhibition Past

John Gollings Artist Room

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Women Photographers 1900–1975 A Legacy of Light

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Women Photographers 1900–1975 A Legacy of Light

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Photography Real and Imagined

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Australiana Designing a Nation

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Requiem to New York Photographs by Ashley Gilbertson

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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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Petrina Hicks Bleached Gothic

Exhibition Current

International Art

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Olympia Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou

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Petrina Hicks Bleached Gothic

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Civilization The Way We Live Now

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Turning Points Contemporary Photography from China

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Darren Sylvester Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something

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William Wegman Being Human

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Archaeology of Light Architectural Photography by Erieta Attali

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Polly Borland Polyverse

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MoMA at NGV 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Japonisme Japan and the Birth of Modern Art

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Floodplain James Geurts

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Patrick Pound The Great Exhibition

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Zoë Croggon Tenebrae

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William Eggleston Portraits

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Ross Coulter Audience

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Contemporary Photography

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Greg Semu The Raft of the Tagata Pasifika (People of the Pacific)

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Henry Talbot 1960s Fashion Photographer

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Richard Mosse The Enclave

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Lurid Beauty Australian Surrealism and its Echoes

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Transmission Legacies of the Television Age

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Follow the Flag Australian Artists and War 1914–45

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Melbourne Now 2013

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Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion

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Ian Strange: SUBURBAN

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Robin Rhode The Call of Walls

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Dior and Yamamoto The New Look

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Captivating style 1950s Melbourne

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Jeff Wall Photographs

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Confounding Contemporary Photography

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Negotiating this world Contemporary Australian Art

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Fred Kruger Intimate Landscapes

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The Mad Square Modernity in German Art 1910–37

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Looking at Looking The Photographic Gaze

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10 ways to look at the past

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The Naked Face Self-portraits

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Unnerved The New Zealand Project

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Endless Present Robert Rooney and Conceptual Art

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Luminous Cities

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Stormy Weather Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Contemporary encounters

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Imagining the Orient

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Timelines Photography and Time

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Long Distance Vision Three Australian Photographers

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Light Years Photography and Space

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No Standing, Only Dancing Photographs by Rennie Ellis

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Order and Disorder Archives and photography

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Look! New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection

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Art Deco 1910–1939

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291 Photographers in the circle of Alfred Stieglitz

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Body Language Contemporary Chinese Photography

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Preserving the past, enriching the future Hugh Williamson’s legacy

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Role Play Portrait Photography

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Krishna Love and Devotion

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An incomplete world Works from The UBS Art Collection

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Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now New York–Venice–Bilbao–Berlin

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Great Exhibitions The World Fairs 1851-1937

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Small Worlds Travel photography of the nineteenth century

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Imaginary Prisons G.B. Piranesi and Vik Muniz

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After Image: Social Documentary Photography in the 20th century

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Light Sensitive Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund

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The Paris End Fashion, Photography & Glamour

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American Beauty Photographs of the American Social Landscape 1930s–1970s

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Remote Control Contemporary Photomedia

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British Art & the 60s from Tate Britain

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Skin Photographs of the body from the twentieth century

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Bruce Nauman Mapping the studio

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Bill Henson 3 Decades of Photography

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Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules

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Shashin Nineteenth–century Japanese Studio Photography

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Flashback Australian photography in the 1960s

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Crown & Camera Photographs of Colonial India

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2004 Australian Culture Now

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City of Light Paris and Photography 1850s-1930s

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Good Looking Narrative Photographs Past & Present

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Mario Bellini Architect & Designer

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Medusae Dorothy Cross & Tom Cross

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Natural Inspiration Photographs of the Landscape 1840s to 1980s

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Second Sight Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria

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Sidney Nolan Desert and Drought

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First Impressions Contemporary Australian Photograms

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Sandman Patricia Piccinini

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Yikwani Contemporary Tiwi Ceramics

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From the World of Beautiful Shadows The circle of Julia Margaret Cameron in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

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Second Nature Peter Peryer, Photographer, New Zealand

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Graeme Hare Photographs

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Underground London The Photographs of Robert Whittaker 1965 – 1970

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Black Room Photographs by Farrell and Parkin

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Uncommon Australians Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery

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Photography: Felix H. Man A Pioneer of Photojournalism

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New York Style Photographs of Jan Groover and Robert Mapplethorpe

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Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers

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So to live as to dream Photographs by Les Walkling

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Athol Shmith Fashion photography from the 1940s to the 1970s

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Generations Photographs by Ponch Hawkes

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New Acquisitions: from the Department of Photography

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Picturesque Sensibility A Nineteenth Century British Photography Album

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A Sixtieth of a Second Portraits of Women 1961 - 1981 by Sue ford

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Drysdale Photographer

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Harry Callahan Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection

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Some Recent Acquisitions 1979–1981

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Survey 15: Relics and Rituals

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Treasures of a Decade

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Illusion and Reality

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America 1935–1943 Photographs from the US Farm Security Administration

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Lee Friedlander

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Max Dupain Photographs 1930–1975

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“Wimmin” Six Australian Women Photographers

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Exploration An Exhibition of Photographs by John Cato and Laurie Wilson

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Frontiers An exhibition of five contemporary Australian photographers

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Brassai Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art

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The Perceptive Eye Representing five photographers from the Kodak Collection

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Portraits of Newsmakers Commissioned for the Covers of TIME, The Weekly News Magazine

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Australian Personalities An Exhibition of Photographic Portraits by Mark Strizic

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The Photographer’s Eye

Essays

Rineke Dijkstra’s Lens on Girlhood

John Gollings: Building Myths

Pictures You Can Feel: The Photography of Christine Godden

The Metropolis and Desire: Modernist Photobooks Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light

Women Photographers 1900 – 1975: A Legacy of Light

Robert Mapplethorpe Irises 1987

Germaine Krull Métal portfolio 1928

It’s a dog’s life

Richard Avedon Renée, the New Look of Dior, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August 1947

The work of photographer Bruno Benini

Les Gray’s Assignment, Rome Elisa Scarton

In the light of Destiny somewhere over the rainbow

Visible and invisible

Hidden story of the city

Moving, working, flowing

This chaotic and tangled place

Diverse megalopolis

Multilayered vibrancy

In a state of constant movement

Celluloid megacities

Please scream inside your heart

Queering the nation, querying the history of Black portraiture: Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama as a healing ritual

Coming back home

Florence Henri Nude composition (Nu composition)

Requiem to New York: Photographs by Ashley Gilbertson

We Change the World

La Petite, Evening Dress

Aïda Muluneh Amusement at the park

Behind the lines

Fashioning identity: Madeline Green, Gwen John and Claude Cahun

Aboriginal Feminism and Gender

Mina Moore’s photographic portrait of Nellie Stewart

The Lashmar family, 1857–58: emigration, photography and family ties

Horst P. Horst Mainboucher corset

Henri Cartier-Bresson Juvisy, France

Zoë Croggon: artist interview

Pieter Hugo Green Point Common, Cape Town

The gallery of air

Yvonne Todd Approximation of Tricia Martin

Information exchange: Robert Rooney and Roger Cutforth

Fiona Pardington: Portrait of a life cast of Matoua Tawai, Aotearoa New Zealand 2010

Sharp focus and an unsentimental vision

Paul Strand 1890–1976: milestone in photography

J. W. Lindt, photographer (1845–1926)

Fred Kruger (1831–88)

Architecture and photography

A documentary impulse: Australian photographer Geoffrey Collings

Portrait of a painter: a photograph of Conrad Martens by Freeman Brothers Studio, 1856

Australia Felix: Douglas T. Kilburn’s daguerreotype of Victorian Aborigines, 1847

Félix Nadar’s Alexandre Dumas père

Private pleasures: an example of French photographic erotica

The sorcerer’s machine: a photographic portrait by Douglas Kilburn, 1847

A turreted berg : an Antarctic photograph by Frank Hurley

‘The Camera is a Dumb Recording Device’, Robert Rooney and the serial photographs in retrospect

Malerie Marder Untitled

The Madonna of the future O.G. Rejlander and Sassoferrato

Desirable Things, the private collection of Alfred Felton

The Multiple Worlds of Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits

Australian idyll: domesticating the Victorian landscape

Bill Henson’s Untitled

Framing Nicholas Caire, Fairy scene at the Landslip, Black’s Spur c. 1878

Patricia Piccinini’s Desert rider, mountain

Martin Parr’s Common sense

Loretta Lux’s The drummer

Boyd Webb’s Wakatipu

Thomas Struth’s Pergamon Museum IV, Berlin

The grim duties of France: Frank Hurley and the Exhibition of Enlargements Official War Photographs

Lynne Roberts-Goodwin Al Hammadi Desert Saqar #1 and Al Hammadi Desert Saqar #3

Precocious style: the Fashion Design Council, 1983–93

David Noonan Untitled

Robin Rhode: Rough cut

Thomas Demand Public housing

Sue Ford’s history

Rethinking an unknown carte-de-visite

Videos

Megacities NGV Triennial

Shaun Gladwell Melbourne Now

Maree Clarke’s Ritual and Ceremony Ancestral Memories

Art and Change with Hoda Afshar We Change the World

Triennial conversations | A Dark Horizon Dr. Edward Colless and Professor Larissa Hjorthin in conversation with Dr. Simon Maidment

Triennial conversations | Quantum memories Refik Anadol in conversation with Simone LeAmon

Daniel von Sturmer | Tableaux Plastique (Sequence 2)

New York City Photographs | NGV Collection With Senior Curator of Photography Susan Van Wyk

Live in-studio artist visit – Darren Sylvester Get to know artists

Hoda Afshar | Remain

Shaun Gladwell | Midnight Traceur

Bleached Gothic An interview with Petrina Hicks

Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something Interview with Darren Sylvester and Maggie Finch

William Wegman & His Four-Legged Muses

Polyverse Polly Borland

Powers many manifestations Tony Garifalakis

The solitude of the picture Jeff Wall and Thomas Demand

Listen

Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act Podcast

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The art of storytelling inspired by Laing’s groundspeed (red piazza) #2 Levels 7-9

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Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou – Video Insight Levels 7-12