Photojournalism Now: Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up

May 18, 2017

Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 19 May 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - the fabulous and expansive Festival of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) featuring Bill Henson, William Eggleston, Patrick Pound, Ross Coulter, Zoe Croggon and more is now on. This is a really wonderful opportunity to see an eclectic selection of photography, some of which you'll love and others you'll loathe, but isn't that the beauty of art! And it's all FREE. Give yourself half a day at least to get through it all.

Special Feature: Melbourne
Festival of Photography - NGV

Bill Henson
I love these landscape works of Henson's and they look magnificent in the gallery which has been painted a deep grey that allows the works to draw you in with their quiet majesty. Until 24 August.

Untitled 2008/09
inkjet print
127 x 180 cm
© Bill Henson

Untiled 2009/10 2009–2010
Inkjet print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australia Artist, 2011 (2012.9)
© Bill Henson

Untitled 2008/09 inkjet print 127 x 180 cm
© Bill Henson

William Eggleston: Portraits
There's something so quirky and offbeat about Eggleston's work that you can't help but smile at the absurdity of it (if not the photograph itself, you'll get a laugh out of the often ridiculous curatorial explanations). Of course there is nostalgia now attached to these images which capture and reflect culture themes of a particular time in America that has now passed. Until 18 June.

Untitled (Memphis, Tennessee), c.1969-71 Dye-transfer print, 55.5 x 36.8cm

Wilson Centre for Photography

Untitled (the artist’s uncle, Adyn Schuyler Senior, with assistant and driver, Jasper Staples, in Cassidy Bayou, Sumner, Mississippi), 1969-70

Pigment print, printed 2016, 111.8 x 152.4cm

Courtesy the Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner, New York/London

Untitled, c.1965-9
Pigment print, printed 2016, 33.4 x 51cm Eggleston Artistic Trust
© Eggleston Artistic Trust

Untitled (Memphis, Tennessee), 1965 Dye-transfer print, 45.1 x 30.5cm Wilson Centre for Photography
© Eggleston Artistic Trust

Untitled, 1965-8
Dye-transfer print, printed 2004 30.5 x 45.1cm
Wilson Centre for Photography © Eggleston Artistic Trust

Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition

(at Ian Potter Gallery Federation Square)

This exhibition is crazy in the most delightful way. Pound, who must be an eccentric character to collect other people's photos, has amassed an unbelievable collection, which is presented in groups - pictures where people have been cut out, faces burned or scratched, removing their identity in an attempt to erase them from the lives of those who have cast out these images; pictures that feature items such as lamps; pictures where the camera case or the photographer's hand is in view; pictures that have been screwed up and tossed out; and those that feature pairs. Stuff that most people would pass by hold fascination for Pound who keeps all of these bits and pieces carefully filed away in boxes. Love it. Until 30 July.

Patrick Pound
New Zealander/Australian 1962–
The photographer’s shadow 2000–17 (detail)
Collection of the artist
Courtesy of Station, Melbourne, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington and Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland © Patrick Pound

Damaged 2008−17 (detail)
Collection of the artist
Courtesy of Station, Melbourne, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington and Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland © Patrick Pound

The hand of the photographer 2007−17 (detail)
Collection of the artist
Courtesy of Station, Melbourne, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington and Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland © Patrick Pound

The hand of the photographer 2007−17 (detail)
Collection of the artist

Courtesy of Station, Melbourne, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington and Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland © Patrick Pound

Pairs (and the double) 2016−17 (detail)

Collection of the artist

Courtesy of Station, Melbourne, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington and Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland

Damaged 2008−17 (detail)
Collection of the artist
Courtesy of Station, Melbourne, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington and Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland © Patrick Pound

Lamps 2016–17 (detail)

Collection of the artist

Courtesy of Station, Melbourne, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington and Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland

Zoë Croggon: Tenebrae

Melbourne artist Zoë Groggon was commissioned by the NGV to create these photo collages that draw on themes of the physical body and the environment. It's an interesting, abstract collection that is visually engaging. Until 30 July.

Bow 2013

Collection of the artist

Courtesy of the artist and Daine Singer, Melbourne © Zoë Croggon

Fonteyn 2012

digital type C print

102.8 x 99.9 cm

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Purchased with funds arranged by Loti Smorgon for Contemporary Australian Photography, 2013 (2013.699) © Zoë Croggon

Kink 2015

Collection of the artist

Courtesy of the artist and Daine Singer, Melbourne © Zoë Croggon

Ross Coulter: Audience
This black and white photographic series documents audience members who were photographed in more than seventy Melbourne galleries and museums between 2013 and 2016. The thing I found most interesting about this exhibition was recognising people I knew in the pictures and working out where the spaces were. Until 16 July.