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Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
In March 2003 Magda Keaney travelled to London to join the photography section of the Victoria & Albert Museum for three months.
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Margaret Cameron, the 'Truth and Likeness' exhibition, Reg Mombassa, Patrick White, George Foxhill and more.
Magda Keaney on entwining the work of Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron, two photographers working a century apart.
The National Portrait Gallery's acquisition of the portrait of Edward John Eyre by pioneering English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
Kim Leutwyler on her portraits of the LGBTQIA+ community, Oliver Giles chats to Polly Borland, Gunggandji artist Simone Arnol, and Andrew Quilty's new book.
National Photographic Portrait Prize judge Joanna Gilmour previews the 2012 exhibition.
Martin Sharp fulfils the Pop art idiom of merging art and life.
The National Portrait Gallery has acquired an evocative depiction of soldier Peter Cosgrove by the Victorian-based painter, printmaker and sculptor Rick Amor.
Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.
Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture.