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Conflicting images
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2008
Michael Desmond reveals the origins of composite portraits and their evolution in the pursuit of the ideal.
123 Faces
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2002
Magda Keaney examines the 123 Faces project by Simon Obarzanek.
Reflections on portraiture
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2004
An extract from the 2004 Nuala O'Flaaherty Memorial Lecture at the Queen Victoria Musuem and Art Gallery in Launceston in which Andrew Sayers reflects on the unique qualities of a portrait gallery.
The God-shaped hole
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2010
Exploring the photographs of Martin Schoeller, Michael Desmond delves into the uneasy pact that exists between celebrity and the camera.
Two pair
Magazine article by Dr Jacqui Strecker, 2008
Stuttgart's Art Museum is showing Otto Dix portraits alongside artists from Lucas Cranach to Andy Warhol. 
Aussies all
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2006
The exhibition Aussies all features the ecclectic portrait photography of Rennie Ellis which captures Australian life during the 70s and 80s.
![[Self-portrait], 1996](/files/5/e/2/e/i2030-slq.jpg "[Self-portrait], 1996")
Reveries
Magazine article by Helen Ennis, 2007
The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.
The Wentworths – Hidden in Plain Sight
Magazine article by Dr Grace Blakeley-Carroll, 2015
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
In and out of focus
Magazine article by Gael Newton, 2017
Gael Newton looks at Australian photography, film and the sixties through the novel lens of Mark Strizic.
A spectral sentience
Magazine article by Aimee Board, 2019
Aimee Board reveals method, motivation and mortality in the portraiture of Rod McNicol.