A new photo from the Powerhouse Museum every day
This is one of the photographs taken on New Year’s Eve in 2004 at the Sydney Observatory. Powerhouse Museum’s members enjoyed a great opportunity to watch spectacular firework displays from one of the best vantage points in Sydney.
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Photography Sotha Bourn
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0
These two images have been taken from the same vantage point in Manly looking south towards the headland. The image on the left comes from our Tyrrell photographic collection titled ‘Manly from Kangaroo Hill, looking south’. This particular image was uploaded to the Commons project on Flickr back in March this year. The second image on the right comes from our smaller Phillips photographic collection of glass plate negatives titled ‘Manly Beach with St Patricks on hill’. This image was uploaded recently to the Commons and one of our dedicated members noticed the two images had been taken from the same vantage point and has made some notes about the differences between the two that reveal the Tyrrell image was taken after the Phillips.
If you know this vantage point or have a contemporary image that matches the location of these old glass plate negative images, we would love to know about it. You could also post an image in our Tyrrell Today group on Flickr matching up with the Tyrrell reproduction.
Both images have no known copyright restrictions.
This beautiful photograph featuring a performing Chinese dancer was taken in February this year during the opening of Shaanxi Province Folk Art Exhibition. The exhibition lasted only five days and was a part of the City of Sydney’s Chinese New Year Festival.
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Photography Sotha Bourn
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This image comes from our David Mist photographic archive that the Museum acquired in the 90s. It is a great collection highlighting David’s amazing work in the fashion industry and his candid street scenes around Sydney including this image. This was originally taken for his book ‘Rise from the Schakel’ in 1963 but ended up appearing on page 88 of the book ‘Sydney, A book of photographs’ that was published in 1969.
David has an exhibition on at the moment called David Mist: Swinging Sydney where you can see more of his beautiful images. This show runs until February.
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Photography by David Mist
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Between the 24th September and the 9th October 2005 the Powerhouse Museum hosted the remarkable Tokyo Recycle Project # 15. For over two weeks Masahiro Nakagawa (above), his fellow designers Rika Koiwa, Jun Koiwa and Eri Takahashi and volunteer students from the Sydney TAFE’s Fashion Design School worked tirelessly to turn once loved clothes into original new garments – in full public view. The project was launched in 1999 in Japan and proved to be a great success as much in its home country as it was overseas. It was definitely a huge hit at the Powerhouse!
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Photography Jean-Francois Lanzarone
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This is an exhibition view of Smart works: design and the handmade curated by Grace Cochrane. The exhibition was held at the Powerhouse in 2007 and showcased works by over forty contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. The exhibition was not only accompanied by a very richly illustrated catalogue, but also a three day long symposium, which was video recorded and is still available on our website. With talks by both academics and practitioners it is definitely worth checking out for anyone interested in the challenges faced by the artists who decide for or against taking their designs to the global market.
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Photography Jean-Francois Lanzarone
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Season’s Greetings from Photo of the Day!
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Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0
This very playful image, from the Phillips photographic collection, was added to the Commons project on Flickryesterday. We now have over 50 images from this collection in the Commons which you can view here and will be loading more over the coming weeks.
This is not the only image of two women in a boxing pose; there is also this image of the same title. This collection was the gift of the Estate of Raymond W Phillips and the photographer is unknown but it is likely that it was his father Arthur Phillips.
No known copyright restrictions.
This is our fifth video experiment that we have loaded highlighting the details that we can achieve through the high-resolution scans we make from our glass plate negatives. This particular video story is made up of several images taken by Charles Kerry between 1875-1917 of roads that existed around the South Coast of NSW through the Illawarra district. Jean-Francois notes:
“Embark on a journey along the South Coast from Stanwell Park to Illawarra with Charles Kerry and his assistant. They would stop their cart on the side of the track, take out their equipment, frame and photograph a landscape. They would then pack up and hit the track again to their next location. As a collector or a cartographer, a photographer travels and on his way records the landscape of his time wondering if what he does makes any sense…”
Photography by Charles Kerry.
Music: "Journeys begin" by Torley (CC-BY-SA).
Video story by Jean-Francois Lanzarone
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic
This image was taken by one of the members from our Modern Times group on Flickr showing an interesting detail of the Shine Dome that is the Australian Academy of Science building in Canberra. This well known architectural structure was designed by the architect Sir Roy Grounds and completed in 1959. The building, formerly known as Becker House, remains one of Australia’s more unusual architectural designs. It was built using a reinforced concrete frame and clad externally using interlocking copper panels. There have been little changes to this building since it was constructed. You can get more details of this building from architecture.com.au
Photography by gravestmor
License: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic
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