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Magazines are the portrait galleries of the 90s... Glossy is about magazines. The exhibition presents the work of eight photographers, Australian by birth or long-term residency, who are producing portraits for publication in magazines around the world.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Clem, George, David, Alfie and Russell Sands were members of one of Australia's most famous sporting families.
2 portraits in the collection
Clem, George, David, Alfie and Russell Sands were members of one of Australia's most famous sporting families.
2 portraits in the collection
Clem, George, David, Alfie and Russell Sands were members of one of Australia's most famous sporting families.
2 portraits in the collection
Clem, George, David, Alfie and Russell Sands were members of one of Australia's most famous sporting families.
2 portraits in the collection
Portraits from The Movement is the first comprehensive survey of photographs from the Juno Gemes archive, which has supported the Aboriginal struggle for justice in Australia from 1978 to the present day.
David Ramsay McNicoll CBE (1914-2000) was editor-in-chief of Sir Frank Packer's Australian Consolidated Press from 1953 to 1972, and wrote an immensely popular column for the Bulletin magazine from 1972 to 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
Noah Taylor (b. 1969) left school at 16 to join Melbourne's St Martin's Youth Theatre.
1 portrait in the collection
Arthur Horner was born in Malvern, Victoria, and attended Sydney High School and the National Art School.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 1999
Tamara Tchinarova (1919–2017), dancer, was one of the original 'baby ballerinas' of the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo.
2 portraits in the collection
Ronald 'Bon' Scott (1946-1980) had come to Australia with his family in 1952, aged six, had lived in Melbourne and Fremantle, where he joined a pipe band; had dropped out of school at fifteen; and had spent some time in custody.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Courtesy of the Corrigan family and Stuart Purves
Gideon Obarzanek (b. 1966), choreographer, director and curator, spent his early life in Israel, attended school in Melbourne and won a place at the Australian Ballet School, choreographing his first piece there in 1987.
1 portrait in the collection