Photography

The sun’s light is an elemental force of nature without which our planet would not exist. Light is also fundamental for the creation of photographs, indeed some of the first photographs were named ‘calotype’ meaning a ‘beautiful impression’ created by light. Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists including Mike and Doug Starn, David Stephenson, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Bill Henson, use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world. Works included range from photograms (camera-less images); large scale installations and digital light-based tec

This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the work of Fred Kruger (1831–88), a German migrant to Victoria with a highly distinctive command of photographic language. Kruger’s detailed and compelling images draw us into an intimate experience of the landscape and are achieved through his orchestration of people within natural environme

10 ways to look at the past features works by ten contemporary Australian artists that demonstrate a fascination with the passing of time. Drawn from the NGV’s permanent collection of contemporary art, the exhibition traces a range of artists’ approaches to the past whether nostalgic, introspective, playful or critical.  Including several new acquisitions, works in the exhibition range from large scale installations, sculptures and video art, to photographs, prints and watercolo

A major event in the annual school calendar, Top Arts: VCE 2010 again presents outstanding work completed by young student artists as part of their assessment for VCE Art and Studio Arts.

The act of photographing people involves a process of observation, scrutiny and looking.  At times photographers remain detached and anonymous.  Other times they are complicit, directing their subjects and encouraging specific actions and poses.  Sometimes the gaze is returned, and sometimes it is denied.  The power of the gaze can create complex relationships between the subject, the photographer and the audience.

Since the nineteenth century, water and its environs have presented an endlessly fascinating subject for photographers.

This unique exhibition reveals how self-portraits have shaped our perceptions of art and the artist’s life. Works are displayed in themes exploring the potential for self-portraits to re-evaluate identity. Drawn entirely from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection, the exhibition demonstrates its extraordinary range and depth. A rich diversity of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, installations and fashion illustrates one of the most constant subjects in Western art and includes significant cross-cultural examp

In an era of chaos came an explosion of creativity – experimental, provocative and utterly compelling.
 
Germany in the early twentieth century was a country in turmoil. After the First World War, the monarchy was abolished and replaced with the Weimar Republic. This was a period of political unrest, but it was also an era of optimism characterised by industrial development, innovation, and unprecedented freedom of expressio

Top Arts: VCE 2004 presents outstanding work completed by young student artists as part of their assessment for VCE Art and Studio Arts. This exhibition highlights the NGV’s strong commitment and support of contemporary art, arts education and showcases the ideas and attitudes of young peopl

Top Arts: VCE 2007 presents outstanding work completed by young student artists as part of their assessment for VCE Art and Studio Arts.This exhibition highlights the NGV’s strong commitment and support of contemporary art, arts education and showcases the ideas and attitudes of young peopl

Top Arts: VCE 2006 presents outstanding work completed by young student artists as part of their assessment for VCE Art and Studio Arts. This exhibition highlights the NGV’s strong commitment and support of contemporary art, arts education and showcases the ideas and attitudes of young peopl

Top Arts: VCE 2005 presents outstanding work completed by young student artists as part of their assessment for VCE Art and Studio Arts. This exhibition highlights the NGV’s strong commitment and support of contemporary art, arts education and showcases the ideas and attitudes of young peopl

Top Arts: VCE 2003 presents outstanding work completed by young student artists as part of their assessment for VCE Art and Studio Arts. This exhibition highlights the NGV’s strong commitment and support of contemporary art, arts education and showcases the ideas and attitudes of young peopl

Top Arts: VCE 2000 presents outstanding work completed by young student artists as part of their assessment for VCE Art and Studio Arts. This exhibition highlights the NGV’s strong commitment and support of contemporary art, arts education and showcases the ideas and attitudes of young peopl

Top Arts: VCE 2001 presents outstanding work completed by young student artists as part of their assessment for VCE Art and Studio Arts. This exhibition highlights the NGV’s strong commitment and support of contemporary art, arts education and showcases the ideas and attitudes of young peopl

First Impressions considers the work of a range of Australian artists for whom the photogram is a medium that best suits their creative concerns.

A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition 7 July – 29 August 2010 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 15 October –…

1956 was a significant year for Melbourne: hosting the Olympics, the intake of post-war refugees and migrants, and the introduction of television. Drawn from the NGV Collection, this exhibition presents a diverse and eclectic range of works to explore notions of cultural identity that defined multicultural Melbourne in the 50s.

Illustrating the artistic and intellectual richness of Julia Cameron’s world, this exhibition comprises British prints and drawings, books, decorative arts, paintings and photographs dating from the 1850s to the 1890s, drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.

This exhibition presents sculptural ceramics by artists from Bathurst and Melville Islands, NT, including 16 ceramic sculptures produced by artists associated with the pottery studio at Tiwi Design Aboriginal Corporation on Bathurst Island. The sculptures are inspired by Tiwi spirituality and past and present Tiwi traditions.

Through her installation Sandman, contemporary Australian artist Patricia Piccinini speculates on the facts and mysteries of human evolution; the transformation from one state of being to another; the emotional turmoil of adolescence; car culture, romance; and fate.

Sidney Nolan is widely acknowledged as Australia’s most inventive and influential artist of the 20^th Century. From 1949–1953, he created extraordinary images of inland Australia. This exhibition examines in detail the significance of Nolan’s images of the Australian outback and features 177 paintings, drawings and photogra

Medusae (the Latin term for jellyfish) is a video-based work created by Irish artist Dorothy Cross in collaboration with her scientist brother Professor Tom Cross that combines the mythology of Irish naturalist Maude Delap with present day scientific research.

Drawn from the NGV Collection, this exhibition features the work of some of the most celebrated international and Australian landscape photographers. Through a fascinating collection of works that span 140 years of landscape photography, this exhibition explores the emotional spectrum that nature can inspire.

Celebrating the opening of NGV International, this exhibition showcases the work of leading Italian architect and designer Mario Bellini, the principal architect for the major NGV redevelopment.

A selection of works from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists

The works acquired through the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists demonstrate the creative vigour and profound sensibilities of contemporary artists working in Australia today. Reflecting on the often confounding nature of human existence and the complex cultural, artistic, social and political mores of our times, contemporary artists are at the vanguard of current thought and inquiry.

At the heart of Guy Bourdin’s fashion photographs is a confrontation with the very nature of commercial image making. While conventional fashion images make beauty and clothing their central elements, Bourdin’s photographs offer a radical alternative. Bourdin presented fashion as the luxurious embellishment rather than the subject of his photographs.

Crown and Camera draws on the intertwined histories of photography and colonialism in India. Images from the NGV Collection dating from the 1850s and 1860s reflect the interpretations photographers gave to their experience during shifting political circumstances.

During the first decades of the 20th century, the ‘Paris end’ of Collins Street, as it was affectionately known, was a popular home to the artistic community of Melbourne. This exhibition brings together commercial and fashion photography from the 1900s to the 1950s reflecting the changing face of Melbou

Drawing on the NGV Collection, this exhibition surveys the rich and diverse history of Australian photography. Ranging from Douglas Kilburn’s 1847 daguerreotypes to Pat Brassington’s digital images from 2001, the exhibition features the work of leading photographers and lesser-known practitioners in Australian photogra

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the National Gallery of Victoria present an unprecedented landmark national survey of work at the edge of current artistic practice. 2004 showcases new work by more than 130 Australian artists including film, video, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, design and fashion.

This is the first large-scale exhibition of Man Ray’s photography to be presented in Australia. Reflecting the most influential and productive years of Man Ray’s photographic output, most of the 200 works in the exhibition comprise vintage photographs made between 1917 and 1939.

This exhibition seeks to ‘flashback’ to photography of the 1960s to consider and celebrate the contribution of Australian practitioners. It was a decade in which documentary photography flourished and this is reflected in the range of early acquisitions of the Department of Photography at the NGV.

Drawn from the NGV Collection, this exhibition highlights French photographers’ contribution to the medium, providing a fascinating glimpse into a city in love (and occasionally at war) with itself. Two periods are profiled: photography from the 1850s –1900s and the development of human interest photography in the 1920s and 19

This exhibition explores new departures in the form and content of art in Britain from 1956 to 1968. This was a period of seismic change in Britain and in British culture. The art of the period both reflected and participated in the social revolution that became mythologised as the ‘Swinging Sixties’.

Look! offers new interpretative possibilities through fresh juxtapositions of Australian and International contemporary art. Incorporating recently acquired art from the new century and works from as far back as the 1970s, the exhibition underscores how gallery collections are fluid entities and generate new meaning over time.

Photographs are not simply a mirror to the world but one of the most complex and, at times, problematic forms of visual representation. This exhibition presents photographs from the NGV Collection that invite us to project fictions and seduce us into looking longer and more thoroughly.

American Beauty features work by documentary photographers who explored the significance of the American vernacular from the 1930s to the 1970s. Ranging in tone from the critical to the playful, the photographers’ works are united by their passionate regard for how the American people express themselves in their physical univers

Despite the photo-rich days we live in, large-scale surveys of Australian photography are relatively rare. Light Sensitive seeks to address this by presenting a major exhibition of work by Australian photographers including Brook Andrew, Patricia Piccinini, Simon Cuthbert, Cherine Fahd, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Simon Obarzanek, Selina Ou and Deborah Paauwe.

Chilean-born Juan Davila, who relocated to Australia in 1974, is a passionate advocate of the need for art to debate issues of social and political significance. Juan Davila is the first major museum exhibition of the artist’s work and features his epic 1980s murals, Chilean pieces and new work created for the exhibitio

This exhibition brings together a selection of 38 images by American, Australian, British, European and South African photographers active from the 1870s to the early 1980s. All the photographs presented possess a memorable quality, something thought-provoking that lingers in our consciousness.

Rennie Ellis was renowned for his candid documentary images of contemporary Australian life, from the glitter of social events to the grittier side of life on the streets. Ultimately, his vision was celebratory. In this exhibition. Ellis documents the richness and diversity of contemporary life from the 1970s–1980

Over the last decade, Chinese photography has undergone a remarkable period of transformation and growth. Often reflecting an urgent desire to explore individual and social identity in a time of unprecedented change, a group of Chinese photographers have used their own bodies as the vehicle for creative expression and critique.

Drawn from the NGV Collection, this exhibition brings together about 40 works by photographers who exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz’s Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue, New York. Photographers featured include Alfred Stiegitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Adolphe De Meyer, Paul Haviland and Paul Stra

Art Deco 1910–1939 is the fifth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the NGV and captures the spirit of the Art Deco period by combining important masterworks from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s acclaimed collection with public and private works from around the world

Drawn from the NGV Collection, this exhibition explores the idea of archives as complex, living and occasionally mysterious systems of knowledge. Several of the artists represented act as archivists, collecting and ordering their own unique bodies of photographs, while others create disorder by critiquing the ideas and systems of archives.

Andreas Gursky’s photographs are concerned with life in a globalised world. Through a combination of enormous scale, precise pin-sharp detail, and bold use of colour, he systematically represents the individual’s place within our complex, fast-paced consumer society. This exhibition of his work is organised by Haus der Kunst, Mun

This exhibition of photographs drawn from the NGV Collection focuses predominantly on the 1960s and 1970s, an exciting time for the artistic and scientific exploration of worlds beyond our own. These were ‘light years’ when people looked up to the skies and beyond, and through photography discovered additional dimensi

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Since the medium of photography began in the 1830s, the body, especially the nude, has been the subject of our fascinated gaze. This exhibition explores how artists have used the camera to describe, celebrate and mythologise the naked body through a selection of photographs drawn from the NGV Collection.

In the mid 19th century a distinctive style of photography developed in Japan. Shashin (Japanese for ‘photography’) explores this remarkable period where Western and Japanese photographers followed the conventions and subject matter of the famed ukiyo-e woodblock prints to show courtesans, actors and scenes of entertainm

This is an exhibition of contemporary international and Australian photography and video from the NGV Collection. Showcased are four works of cinematic style and proportion – in each work, the artist takes on a directorial role, manoeuvring lighting, sets and actors from behind the lens, as if by remote contro

Bruce Nauman is an American sculptor, photographer and performance artist working with video. This exhibition brings together two distinct but related bodies of video work by Bruce Nauman that investigate the role of the artist and the possibilities of artistic creation within the confines of the studio environment.

Bill Henson is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. His powerful photographs approach the painterly and the cinematic, bringing together the formal and classical with the gritty dramas of the everyday. Organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this exhibition is the first major survey of Henson’s work.

The phenomenal contents of Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules provide a unique window into the life of this prolific and iconic artist, but also offer an almost exhaustive cultural context for the social and artistic scene in America during Warhol’s caree

Great Exhibitions begins with the famous London Great Exhibition of 1851 and ends with the sophisticated Art Deco and modernist fairs of Paris 1925 and 1937. This exhibition is held in celebration of a magnificent gift of works to the NGV, many of which are featured in the exhibition.

The breathtaking originality of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s series of etchings, the Imaginary Prisons, has remained a source of inspiration since they were first published in the mid-18th century. This exhibition presents the first and second edition of Piranesi’s Prison series together with Vik Muniz’s photographs inspired by Piranesi�

Small Worlds brings together a range of 19th century photographs and albums that document far-ranging travels popularised in the West, from the ‘eternal cities’ of Europe, to mystical sites of the East, and romanticised, picturesque ruins of Great Brit

This Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition presents post-war and contemporary art from the worldwide collections of the famous Guggenheim Museum. Featured are iconic artworks from the 1940s to the present by internationally renowned artists such as Jackson Pollock, Alberto Giacometti, Mark Rothko, Dan Flavin, Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman.

This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Hugh Williamson, one of the NGV’s most important benefactors, whose foundation has enabled the NGV to acquire more than 60 works relating to Melbourne and its environs. Major acquisitions represented in this exhibition include works by Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Stephen Bush and Jon Cattapa

Drawn from one of the finest corporate art collections in the world, this exhibition presents work by leading international artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Andreas Gursky, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman.

Krishna is one of the most popular of the Hindu gods worshipped throughout Asia, in particular India. This exhibition offers both historical and contemporary interpretations of Krishna worship and devotion and explores the narrative of Krisha’s life story through some 70 works in a range of media from across Indi

Portrait photography is a complex area of photographic practice that involves a dynamic process of collaboration between the sitter, viewer and camera operator. This exhibition creates a provocative interchange between historical and contemporary photography to suggest how photographers work to construct, question or reflect the notion of ‘role playing

Coinciding with the International Year of Astronomy, Shared Sky explores the cultural experience of the night sky over our southern continent. From Warmun in Western Australia to Melbourne in Victoria, artists of different cultural backgrounds and locales explore humanity’s enduring psychological engagement with the southern stars over the centuries.

Unnerved explores a particularly rich, dark vein found in contemporary New Zealand art. The psychological or physical unease underlying many works in the exhibition is addressed with humour, parody and poetic subtlety by artists across generations and mediums.

The great cities of the world are vibrant creative centres in which the built environment is often as inspirational as the activities of its citizens, and, since the nineteenth century photographers have creatively explored the idea of the city.

Stormy Weather charts some contemporary approaches to the landscape through the work of eleven Australian photographers.

This exhibition presents a selection of conceptual photographs and artists’ books produced in Melbourne and internationally during the 1960s and 1970

In this exhibition, one aspect of time – the human life – is considered from a photographic perspective. Drawn from the NGV Collection, works by international and Australian photographers provoke our understanding of the medium’s capacity to suggest the concept of time in ways that may be surprising, moving or confro

This exhibition examines the idea of the ‘tourist gaze’ and its relationship with three contemporary Australian photographers: Christine Godden, Max Pam and Matthew Sleeth. All have photographed aspects of the everyday at home but have also ventured forth in the world with the delighted, but not uncritical, eyes of the travel

Re-view traces the evolution of photography from the 1840s to now through some of the best loved and most remarkable international photographs in the NGV’s Collection. Artists featured include Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Robert Frank and Boyd W

Top Arts: VCE 1999 presents outstanding work completed by young student artists as part of their assessment for VCE Art and Studio Arts. This exhibition highlights the NGV’s strong commitment and support of contemporary art, arts education and showcases the ideas and attitudes of young peopl