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Donald Trump’s Georgia mugshot.

Trump hangs his own mugshot in Oval Office

The photograph, taken after he was charged in Georgia on racketeering charges, has been mounted in a gold frame on a wall in the White House.

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  • Benedict Smith

January

South Vietnamese forces follow after terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places on June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. The terrified girl had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. The children from left to right are: Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, who lost an eye, Phan Thanh Phouc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc, Kim Phuc, and Kim’s cousins Ho Van Bon, and Ho Thi Ting. Behind them are soldiers of the Vietnam Army 25th Division.

Who really took the Vietnam War’s most iconic photo?

Photographs don’t come much more influential than ‘Napalm Girl’, the 1972 image that supposedly hastened the end of the Vietnam War. But now its provenance has been sensationally disputed.

  • Jada Yuan
Irving Penn American, Plainfield, New Jersey 1917?2009 New York Truman Capote, New York March 5, 1948 Gelatin silver print Image: 10 1/16 x 8 3/16 in. (25.5 x 20.8 cm.) Sheet: 10 1/16 x 8 3/16 in. (25.5 x 20.8 cm.) Overall: 10 1/16 x 8 3/16 in. (25.5 x 20.8 cm.) Promised Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation IP.162 Irving Penn: Centennial Exhibition,?April 24?July 30, 2017.?The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 199.

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

Le Baiser de l’Hotel de Ville, 1950, by Robert Doisneau, carries a pre-sale estimate of $US 10,000 to 15,000 in Phillips’ Photographs auction in New York on October 9, 2024. It is signed in ink in the margin.

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

Cartoonist David Rowe talks shop with Treasurer Jim Chalmers in Canberra.

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
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August 2024

Search function on Google Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro With Gemini.

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

Henson’s studio houses antique statuary and books, as well as his large-scale archived photographs draped in plastic.

‘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
Brad Pitt road-tripping with photographer Ryan McGinley for GQ magazine.

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
Blanche Violet Maher’s portrait of her two sisters at the river on Collaroy Station.

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

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

Phaidon’s ‘The Christmas Book’ is your picturesque guide to everything to do with the festive season.

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
“Girls In The Windows” was taken in 1960 to memorialise the New York brownstone building opposite the photographer’s studio before it was demolished.

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 gold hoop earrings on a young girl glimmer as she slides across the cab of a pickup truck: one of the images from the series ‘The Liquid Night’.

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
Ben and Dan Silvertown

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
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October 2023

Detail from: ‘Self-portrait with headband’, New York Studio, New York, USA (c1932) © Lee Miller.

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
Andrew Quilty at the Financial Review’s photographic studio on Wednesday.

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
Robot Intermarriage 1895 (2023) by Hannah Silver.

‘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

An AI-generated image of Margot Robbie at the prime minister’s desk that used a real photo of Scott Morrison as a reference.

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.

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  • Matthew Drummond
Still Life, by Dorothea Francis (1903-1975), is estimated at $800 to $1200 in Leonard Joel’s Women Artists auction in Melbourne on September 18, 2023. 

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

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