Happy Anniversary, Family of Man
This year, 2015, is an apt moment to remember an important exhibition, first seen 60 years ago, and still going… Recently, I have been reading John Williams, the Sydney photographer […]
Category Archives: Memory
Wild rails and nervous nystagmus
*The research for this blog post contributed to a paper The Liminal Wilderness of Railway Margins that I delivered on June 27 2013 at Cultures of the Suburbs. The ‘Cultures of the Suburbs International Research […]
Learning about Surfers from Las Vegas
I’ve been posting about the way re(peat)-photography permits access to another’s seeing, while Greg Neville and I have been working on a such a project for Melbourne. What if the […]
…and through father’s eye
(James) Brian McArdle has come up incidentally in some recent email exchanges with a public gallery director/photography historian, interested in my father’s work because Brian was editor of Walkabout magazine through […]
Nude Ascendant
February 15, 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the opening of the revolutionary 1913 Armory Show arts fair which brought Modern art to New York. Francis Naumann Fine Art marks […]
Another First Photo
It’s probably rare for children these days not to have made a photograph, or a great many of them if they have access to a phone camera, before the […]
James McArdle: Camera/Eye 