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Louis Kahan AO
Sir Asher Joel, n.d.
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Ingvar Kenne
Joel Edgerton, 2007 (printed 2014)
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Joel Pratley
Finalist interviews
An interview with Joel Pratley, Winner of the Living Memory National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Sir Asher Joel
Biography
Sir Asher Joel (1912-1998), public relations entrepreneur and state politician, started out as a copyboy at Sydney’s Daily Telegraph.
1 portrait in the collection
Sorry, Xerox, Sorry
by Joel Burrows
General content
Finalist, MDPA 2015
Living Memory – National Photographic Portrait Prize extended to January 2022
6 September 2021
Archived media releases 2021
In light of recent and ongoing gallery closures brought on by the COVID pandemic, the NPG’s 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition season will be extended until 16 January next year.
Finalists announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize
14 November 2018
Archived media releases 2018
The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018
8 March 2018
Archived media releases 2018
Images for media use will be available from 8 March 2018.
Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015 finalists announced
17 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The National Portrait Gallery have selected the finalists for the Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015.
Winners announced: Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015
27 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The winners of the Macquarie Digital Portraiture Awards will be announced tomorrow morning at 10.00am at the National Portrait Gallery.
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The look and the feel
Living Memory exhibition essay
General content
Editor Stephen Phillips looks at the finalists' photographs through a judge's lens.
John McRae
NPPP 2012 learning resource
An interview with the photographer.
Activating the space
Magazine article by Sandra Phillips, 2020
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Twin chics
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2021
Joanna Gilmour on the exuberant union of fashion pioneers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, captured in luminescent splendour by artist Carla Fletcher.
The Vanity model
Magazine article by David Friend, 2009
Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.