Bill Henson's pictures, shot 30 years ago in Melbourne with a telephoto lens, produce feelings of alienation and detachment. From his untitled 1980-82 series of faces in the crowd. At the NGV International, Melbourne, until March 4. FULL STORY
Looking at looking
A SELECTION of images from the Looking at looking: The Photographic Gaze exhibition at NGV International, Melbourne, until March 4.
Ashley Gilbertson's images achieve a dispassionate view that nonetheless evokes tension between the individual looking and the one looked at. A member of the Mahdi Army RPG team (2004), from the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot series (2004). FULL STORY
David Thomas. Amid history 2 (Large version) (2006), enamel paint on type C photograph on aluminium and plastic. FULL STORY
Charles Green and Lyndell Brown. Afghan traders with soldiers, market, Taran Kowt Base Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan (2007), from The approaching storm series (2009). FULL STORY
In Thomas Struth's Pergamon Museum IV, Berlin (2001), many of the people involuntarily fall into physical attitudes that mimic those of the carved figures. FULL STORY
Bill Henson, from his untitled 1980-82 series of faces in the crowd. FULL STORY
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