This Month
As AI becomes harder to detect, photography is having a renaissance
Many of the largest and most powerful art dealers in the US – and especially New York – are dedicating significant attention and real estate to photography.
- Julia Halperin
October 2024
Iconic images of life, death and football fetch top dollar
A series of auctions suggests the market for big-name photographers is alive and well.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
September 2024
How we got Australia’s most powerful to step into David Rowe’s world
We thought our Power listers might be reluctant to participate. Turns out, they loved it – more or less.
- Matthew Drummond
August 2024
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Cool or dystopian? Google launches AI-powered phones
The tech giant has launched a new range of AI-packed phones, earbuds and watches. Here’s what they will do (if you really want them to).
- Paul Smith
Julian Burnside KC to part ways with classic industrial images
The barrister and his artist wife Kate Durham are selling 145 works by celebrated industrial photographer Wolfgang Sievers.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
March 2024
‘A chook shed at the end of the universe’: at home with Bill Henson
Artists Bill Henson and Louise Hearman have turned the building that houses their studios and living quarters into an intriguing sanctuary.
- Stephen Todd
Why the biggest celebrities in the world trust this photographer
New York-based artist Ryan McGinley has road-tripped with Brad Pitt, hung out with Kate Moss and got Troye Sivan to strip. Now he’s in Melbourne to explain what drives him.
- Stephen Todd
How the discovery of old photos exposed an ancestor’s hidden talent
A young woman’s record of rural life in Australia in the late 1800s is finally getting its day in the sun after her great-granddaughter found her work in a Sydney attic.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
February 2024
- Opinion
- Digital Life
Why this new Samsung phone can help you be your best self
Samsung’s latest Galaxy S Ultra maintains its position as the most useful phone you can buy. So what if sometimes it gives you more than you bargained for?
- John Davidson
November 2023
- Christmas Gift Guide 2023
- Life & Leisure
You can’t go wrong with these beautiful books for time-poor people
We’ve selected 14 image-driven options in which the pictures do the talking.
- Stephen Clark
This may be the world’s highest-grossing photograph
A shot taken by a little-known New York commercial photographer has defied the laws of supply and demand for over three decades.
- David Segal
The Liquid Night: New York City through the eyes of Bill Henson
He took the photographs on the gritty streets around Time Square decades ago but never did anything with them – until he found them recently and had an epiphany.
- Stephen Todd
The hot new thing in social media is here. Again
Lapse photo app has shot to No. 2 in the US on the Apple App Store’s free chart but will it last?
- Madison Malone Kircher
October 2023
The extraordinary life of photographer Lee Miller in 100 pictures
When things were going well, the model and muse turned wartime and fashion photographer was wonderful company, says her son. She could be monstrous too.
- Tony Davis
A combat photographer driven by guilt, not ego
The fall of Kabul was the most terrifying experience of Australian Andrew Quilty’s life. He’s disappointed more people don’t ask him about it.
- Aaron Patrick
‘A robot from the future is getting married to a tram’
You never know what you’re going to get with artificial intelligence, says a prize-winning artist.
- Theo Chapman
September 2023
What we learnt when making AI images for the 2023 Power issue
Our team taught artificial intelligence to make portraits, like this one of Margot Robbie. The results show how it’s learning about 21st-century culture.
- Updated
- Matthew Drummond
The unlikely businessman who championed women artists
A Melbourne auction shines a light on a furniture salesman who used his own home as an art gallery.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
World-first prize for AI-generated photos
A prize for the best photo-like image created by artificial intelligence is an Australian innovation.
- Theo Chapman
How can you spot a deepfake image? Google has a solution
The ultimate goal is to help create a system where most AI-generated images can be easily identified using embedded watermarks.
- Gerrit De Vynck