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Moving still

Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.

Big it up

Former National Portrait Gallery Curator Magda Keaney was a member of the selection panel of the Schwepes Photographic Portrait Prize 2004 at the National Portrait Gallery London.

Where the wild things are

Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.

Unbuttoning uniforms

Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.

Life class

Barbara Blackman reflects on her experiences as a life model.

Judicial portraits

Leslie Moran investigates the portraits of judges in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.

Man of war

Tedi Bills talks to George Gittoes about canvassing conflict.

All the way with K of K

Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.

Thousand mile stare

John Elliott talks about his photographic portrait practice, including his iconic image of Slim Dusty arm-in-arm with Dame Edna Everage.

A new perspective

An exhibition devoted to Hans Holbein's English commissions shows the portraitist bringing across the Channel new technical developments in art - with a dazzling facility.

Sophisticated and glamorous

Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.

The activist A-list

Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.

Exposed: Voyeurism Surveillance and the camera since 1870

The Tate/SFMOMA exhibition Exposed examined the role of photography in voyeurism and how it challenges ideas of privacy and propriety.

I'm not there

Vintage Max

Gael Newton delves into the life and art of renowned Australian photographer, Max Dupain.

Getting a head

Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.