Tag Archives: festivals

The fledgling photographer

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph of Sydney’s Waratah Festival parades and was created by David Mist for his 1969 publication, Sydney: a book of photographs. Although the focus is on the… More

Trachtenfest, Stuttgart, 1931

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Kathy Hackett

This photograph, by Hedda Morrison, was taken at the Stuttgart folk festival in 1931. This and other photographs from the same event demonstrate an interest in the conventions of New Realism in… More

The art of henna

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Iwona Hetherington

FFF Festival at Fairfied Showground -
Multicultural Eid Festival (MEFF), Fairfield showground on the 4th of September 2011. Photography for Fait...

This photograph was taken on the 4th of September last year during the Multicultural Eid Festival and Fair (MEFF) at Fairfield showground. The MEFF started… More

Faith, fashion, fusion: on location

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Kathy Hackett

One of the locations we visited for our streetstyle photo shoots was the Multicultural Eid Festival and Fair (also known as MEFF) at Fairfield Showground.… More

International Jazz Day

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Iwona Hetherington

94/63/132/19 Glass negative, quarter plate, saxophone, Thomas Lennon,
Sydney, Australia, 1934

The 30th of April was proclaimed the “International Jazz Day” during the UNESCO General conference last year. The Day is a tribute to jazz as… More

Dragon dance

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Kathy Hackett

96/44/1-5/4/163/3 Neg 781 As used in book on page 152

This photograph by David Mist, created for his 1969 publication, Sydney: a book of photographs, shows a Chinese dragon dance at one of Sydney’s Waratah… More

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.