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Private practice
by Joanna Gilmour
David Smith portrayed Dr Henry Crock without the accoutrements of an orthopaedic surgeon, adding to the National Portrait Gallery's collection of eminent Australian medical practitioners.
Off the wall
by John Witzig
Photographer and surf mag editor John Witzig tells the stories behind his iconic surf images.
Two pair
by Dr Jacqui Strecker
Stuttgart's Art Museum is showing Otto Dix portraits alongside artists from Lucas Cranach to Andy Warhol.
The bright-eyed Mariner
by Dr Sarah Engledow
A new colonial portrait brings a zealous captain near.
Every flap, fold and bulge
by Starr Figura
Lucian Freud's unflinching realism is on display in the first solo exhibition of his paintings and etchings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Emerging realities
by Helena Bezzina
At the end of 2007 the National Portrait Gallery launched the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize and artists aged between eighteen and twenty-five were invited to submit self portraits using a variety of media including drawing, painting, printmaking and traditional or digital photography.
I'm not there
by Dr Christopher Chapman
Christopher Chapman looks at some contemporary portraits that explore the construction of identity.
Pretty in peach
by Joanna Gilmour
It's remarkable that the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond has produced two of Australia's most successful opera singers. Three decades apart, but within a short distance of each other, both Helen Porter Mitchell and Florence Wilson were born.
Public hanging
by Michael Desmond
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.