Janina Green @ Colour Factory

Janina Green's current exhibition Be Home Before Dark at the Colour Factory propels us into what Simon Gregg describes as "psycho-scapes" - those haunting nature experiences that come with their own soundtrack. Janina Green uses film and prints by hand but don't let that put you off. Check it out until 28 July 2012

Colour Factory Melbourne
409-429 Gore Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065.
T (+61) 03-9419-8756.

TIMEMACHINE

Lee Grant , winner of the Bowness Photography Prize in 2010 is editor of Timemachine a collaborative online magazine with editorial contributions from Tom Williams and Sarah Rhodes.

The current issue titled Elegy features an essay from Helen Ennis' Reveries and the work of photographers well known to MGA audiences , such as Stephen Dupont and Georgia Metaxas plus others.The website states "Timemachine publishes contemporary photography from Australia and elsewhere in the world. Our emphasis is on showing new work and longer term projects; and bringing the concerns of photographers and their colleagues to wider attention.

http://timemachinemag.com/current-issue /http://timemachinemag.com/current-issue/

Hoppé is the Leibovitz of the early 20th century

In June MGA hosts Emil Otto Hoppé:  society, studio, and street celebrating the work of a pivotal figure in photography in the first half of the twentieth century.

Cecil Beaton called him ‘The Master’; during the 1920s, he was the most famous photographer in the world. Now El Mundo applauds Hoppe's exhibition at MAPFRE in Madrid 

During the 1920s and 30s, Hoppé was one of Europe’s most sought-after photographers. His studio in South Kensington was a magnet for the rich and famous, from dancers to film stars and from royalty to leading writers and artists.

Hoppé photographed the most famous cultural identities of the era.  This exhibition features remarkable portraits of most of the leading social and cultural figures of the period, including King George V and Queen Elizabeth, Albert Einstein, Fritz Lang, Paul Robeson, and Benito Mussolini.

Many of Hoppé’s subjects included major literary figures. George Bernard Shaw, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, AA Milne, Ezra Pound, Vita Sackville West, Anita Loos, Somerset Maugham, Henry James,  Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy all sat for Hoppé. The artists Jacob Epstein, Marinetti, Marsden Hartley, Käthe Kollwitz and dancers Margot Fonteyn, Martha Graham and Nijinsky also had their portraits taken by Hoppé. 

The works of Emil Otto Hoppé come to Melbourne for the first time in an exhibition at MGA from 9 June to 29 July 2012.

Drawn from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London and the EO Hoppé Archive in Pasadena, California.

image:Emil Otto Hoppé

Ezra Pound  1918

gelatin-silver print

OCULI

This week we're installing OCULI: TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITO - and will be open to the public on Friday 26 Jan.

The exhibition will be officially opened by Michael Coyne, Adjunct Professor of Photography, RMIT University and eminent Australian photojournalist, 3pm Saturday 4 February 2012.

Ten years ago, a group of Australian photographers began Oculi. Committed by a collective vision to represent contemporary Australia and its regions, each member of the group embraces a range of distinctive styles and perspectives that include a strong documentary focus.

The exhibition comprises approximately 80 photographic images of Australia as we understand and experience it today.

Oculi photographers include: Donna Bailey, James Brickwood, Tamara Dean, Jesse Marlow, Nick Moir, Jeremy Piper, Andrew Quilty, Dean Sewell, Steven Siewert, Tamara Voninski. OCULI: TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITO is a Manly Art Gallery & Museum Touring Exhibition curated by Sandy Edwards.

George Parkin

We are incredibly sad to hear of the passing of great Australian artist George Parkin who with his partner Rose Farrell maintained a wonderful photographic practice over the last two and a bit decades. Our thoughts are with Rose and George's family and friends.

image:

Rose FARRELL and George PARKIN
Traces of the flood: lower leg traction 2004
chromogenic print
ed 1/10
90 x 156 cm
Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection

2012 Muswellbrook Photography Award

The Muswellbrook Photography Award has been going for 23 years and has been judged by the leading figures in Australian photography including Helen Ennis, Gerrit Fokkema, David Moore, Steven Lojewski and Robert McFarlane. This year it is Martyn Jolly's turn. Entries close 3 February. $10K first prize

New and relaxed

Check out MGA's refurbished cafe with our new community table, daily papers, art magazines, FREE Wifi and of course great coffee!

We've also tweeked our menu, keeping your favorites and offering the seasonal best from our suppliers including: toasted pides, sandwiches and croissants, sandwiches, bowl salads, grazing plates & Victorian cheeses.