Monthly Archive for March, 2008

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Danghe reservoir

Published by imageservices on March 21, 2008 0 Comments

Danghe reservoir West of Dunhuang. Peoples Republic of China. Photographed in 2006 for the exhibition, The Great Wall of China: dynasties, dragons and warriors.
An exhibition about China’s historic Great Wall which featured treasures rarely seen outside the vaults of China’s major museums.
Within the exhibition was a panoramic, photographic immersive. A museum photographer was sent to China to photograph the Great Wall and the landscape for this immersive.
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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone
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Space Gallery Zero Gravity-Installation

Published by imageservices on March 20, 2008 0 Comments

An exciting new visitor experience, the Zero Gravity Space Lab, takes shape during the refurbishment of the Museum’s Space gallery. The Zero Gravity Space Lab uses some ingenious visual tricks and sense of balance to create the illusion of weightlessness. It is the centrepiece of a new theme about living and working in space that is a major focus of the new display. Opens March 21.
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Photography by Sotha Bourn
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Great Wall of China exhibition view, Immersive projection

Published by imageservices on March 19, 2008 0 Comments

A museum photographer was sent to China to document the Great Wall and the surrounding landscape to produce a panoramic immersive for the exhibition The Great Wall of China: dynasties, dragons and warriors. Several images were stitched together to create this extremely wide, projection.
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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone.
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Kings Cinema Foyer

Published by imageservices on March 18, 2008 0 Comments

Interior of the foyer of the Kings Cinema in the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. This is an art deco cinema similar to those of the 1930s. It has been built to look like the original theatres of the Kings Cinema chain. In the theatre you can watch Australian newsreels and films from the 1920s and 1930s and hear the sounds of a Fotoplayer, which is a mechanical musicmaker used to provide the accompaniment for silent films.
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Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
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Night shot, Sydney Observatroy,

Published by imageservices on March 17, 2008 0 Comments

Exterior of Sydney Observatory, Watson Road, Observatory Hill, NSW. This heritage listed building was built in 1858. Today it is a museum and public observatory for astronomy education and public telescope viewings. This year the Observatory will be celebrating it’s 150th anniversary
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Photography by Scott Donkin
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Eastern corridor, Dong Chang Xiang

Published by imageservices on March 16, 2008 0 Comments

Eastern corridor, Dong Chang Xiang, People’s Republic of China. A Museum photographer went to China to photograph the Great Wall and the landscape for a photographic immersive that was seen in the exhibition, The Great Wall of China: dynasties, dragons and warriors.
Over 3000 photographs were taken during this trip.
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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone.
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Bridal Veil Falls

Published by imageservices on March 15, 2008 0 Comments

Bridal Veil Falls from Govett’s Leap, Blackeath, Blue Mountains National Park. The Blue Mountains were photographed to trial the process of merging several images into panoramic landscape shots. This process was then used in a photographic immersive with images shot in China for the exhibition The Great Wall of China: dynasties, dragons and warriors.
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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone.
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Pyrmont Community Centre celebrates

Published by imageservices on March 14, 2008 0 Comments

Pyrmont Community Centre Christmas Party, 2004. Photographed for the exhibition, Paradise, Purgatory and Hellhole: a history of Pyrmont and Ultimo. The exhibition looked at the transformation of the area into the crowded, highly industrialized and distinctive suburbs they became.
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Red kangaroo paw

Published by imageservices on March 13, 2008 0 Comments

This plant was photographed whilst on location shooting for the Powerhouse Museum exhibition, Yinalung yenu: women’s journey. In this exhibition six prominent Indigenous women share their stories and reveal the important roles women have played in Australian society, from traditional times to today. This was taken on the property of one of the women featured in the exhibition. Kangaroo paw is a species from the Haemodoraceae family and is drought tolerant and bird attracting. Exhibition opens March 21.
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Photography by Paula Bray
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Gyuto butter sculptures

Published by imageservices on March 12, 2008 0 Comments

Coloured butter sculptures made by the Gyuto monks of Tibet during their visit to the Powerhouse Museum in 2004. Eight Gyuto monks made the elaborate sculptures and a sand madala at the museum. These intricate sculptures are designed to create harmony in the world.
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