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Artist's talk with David Malin: 2.00pm Sunday 14 June

In the world of astronomical photography David Malin is a pioneer.

On Sunday 14 June at 2.00pm in conjunction with MGA's current exhibition Beyond visibility : light and dust, co-curator and photographic scientist-astronomer David Malin will discuss the ideas of Galileo along with his own discoveries in astronomical photography.

Malin's photographs are some of the finest wide-field astronomy pictures made with professional telescopes anywhere in the world and capture the true colours of distant stars, galaxies and nebulae using innovative photographic techniques.

Join us for this unique opportunity. Bookings are essentail ph 9562 1569
Costs $10 general public
$5 Friends of MGA

David Malin has been involved in scientific imaging all his working life. He has published over 120 scientific papers and a similar number of popular articles on astronomy and photography, as well as seven books.

Film screening - Hitchcock's Vertigo Saturday 6 June 2.00pm

Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Vertigo will be showing at Monash Gallery of Art - to be introduced by Wendy Haslem, Lecturer, Cinema Studies & Cinema Management, University of Melbourne. Entry by Gold Coin Donation - bookings essential!
Saturday 4 June 2009
2pm start

Curator's talk: Vertigo, 3.00pm Thursday 4 June

Vertigo
Max Dupain, John Gollings, David Moore, Deborah Paauwe, Wolfgang Sievers, David Stephenson, Simon Terrill, Arthur Wicks


> Join Curator Stephen Zagala in a discussion about MGA's current exhibition Vertigo. Explore the camera's capacity to unsettle our everyday perception of the world through the work of a number of Australian photographers in MGA's collection. The exhibition includes a range of photographs that use extreme camera angles to produce different formal and psychological effects, so that we might see the world afresh.