. READING TODAY WITH FRIENDS “Mumbulla Spiritual Contact” a photographically illustrated (photobook) by Guboo Ted Thomas and photographer Wesley Stacey. A large format photographic essay explaining the significance of Mumbulla Mountain to the Yuin people the traditional owners of the land. Mumbulla Mountain is a significant initiation site and is steeped in the mythology…
Month: January 2021
ON READING PHOTOBOOKS – Antipodean Photobook People
THE “ON READING: PHOTOBOOKS” PROJECT As part of the Brisbane Photobook Club’s celebrations for World Photobook Day (WPBD) in 2015 Doug Spowart and Victoria Cooper coordinated an exhibition at Maud Gallery (now the Queensland Centre for Photography) in Brisbane that featured 67 Australian, New Zealand and some international photographer’s self-portraits imaged while reading…
AUSTRALIAN PHOTOBOOKS @ The State Library of Victoria
During 2020 THE WORLD OF THE BOOK exhibition at the State Library of Victoria presented a brief history of photobooks including some striking Australian examples. Principal librarian Des Cowley presented an online accessible video discussing the history of the photobook and some of the Australian books. Due to the Pandemic the SLV was unfortunately…
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS I LUSTED AFTER in 2020
IN EARLY DECEMBER Australian photobook collector and maker Bill Purvis and AMERICAN SUBURB X managing editor Brad Feuerhelm initiated what turned out to be two lengthy online thread discussions on the FlakPhoto Books Facebook page about the end of year ‘BEST PHOTOBOOK’ lists. Topics included: the value or otherwise of lists, who makes the lists…
Photobooks in Australia + New Zealand 