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The artist and the doctor
Lust
Art, war, scandal
Nothing black and white about the Greys
It's Complicated
Marriage: a prolonged disaster
Immediately, there was a crackle
It's Complicated
A meeting of minds
Hearts and craft
Passion
The long game
Larry Clark
Tough & Tender
General content
Larry Clark's black-and-white documentary images of young outsiders reveal raw feelings.
Ayman Kaake
Vox pops
This photo is a self portrait. So this is me. So you can see the eye resemblance. So, and this photo is inspired by my friends, my workplace.
Of Burke, Wills ... and wills
It's Complicated
Infatuation and (ill-fated) exploration
2022 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.
All the world's a stage
General content
Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe
Tough & Tender Media Release
14 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.
The 1850s to the 1880s
Mo and beard timeline
The restrained and cultivated facial hair fashions evident through the first decades of the 1800s were on the wane by the middle of the century, when hirsute faces became mainstream.
Sean Slattery
Vox pops
This is Davide Di Giovanni and he was a principal dancer for the Sydney Dance Company for six or seven years. He got in touch with me to do some video work together and he was just so amazing.
Heidi Margocsy
Vox pops
Perrin is an amazing amazing woman, and what I wanted to do with this particular sitting was create something raw and stripped back.
Skin names
General content
The first row of paintings depict stories relating to kinship, introducing significant women relatives.
Mia Boe
Artists and Collectives
Mia Boe is a Narrm/Melbourne-based artist known for her haunting and evocative painting practice, informed by her Butchulla and Burmese ancestry.
Shifting the definition
Nearest & Dearest
Defiant commitment