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VIVID National Photography Festival

17 June 2008

In association with the Vivid, the National Photography Festival, Picture Australia will be launching a DVD. See selected works from Picture Australia Flickr groups (146kb PDF file)

Celebrate images, history and invention (419kb PDF file)
6.30 pm, Monday 14 July 2008
National Library of Australia
Screening: LG1 Theatre,
Parkes Place, Canberra

Join image makers, private collectors, national, state and regional picture curators in conversation on their passion for image collections. Find out about the collective image network that makes up Picture Australia and the opportunities for you to contribute. View exciting new artworks produced by creative Australians and from the collections of key museums, galleries, libraries and archives across the country.
Free event, open to the public.
Bookings are essential: bookings@nla.gov.au or 02 6262 1271


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May Flickr report

5/06/2008

View highlights from contributors to Picture Australia's Flickr groups during May

Read report (14 kb PDF file)

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View the National Gallery of Australia's entire collection of digitised Australian Art on Picture Australia

29 May 2008

Researchers can now access the National Gallery of Australia's entire digitised Australian Art collection on Picture Australia.

The Australian Art collection at the National Gallery of Australia incorporates art made in Australia or about Australian subjects since European settlement in 1788, with the greatest strength in the 20th century. The collection encompasses paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, sketchbooks, posters, photographs, decorative arts and installation art.

Pastoral - Rupert Bunny

Add a search box to your site

29 May 2008

Do you want to be able to search Picture Australia directly from your organisational or personal website?

A Picture Australia search is as easy to add to your webpage as a simple copyt and paste.

Placing the search box on your organisational or personel website will help your visitors find and get items from the collections of Australia's libraries, museums, galleries and archives.

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April Flickr report

5 May 2008

View highlights from contributors to Picture Australia's Flickr groups during April

Read report (14.6 kb PDF file)

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Compelling contemporary images of Australian Defence Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are now available for viewing on Picture Australia

24 April 2008

The Australian War Memorial in 2003 appointed David Dare Parker as its official photographer and Lewis Miller as its official artist, to document the role of Australian Defence Force personnel deployed to the Second Gulf War. The artists have produced a vast array of paintings, sketches and photographs about the every day lives of Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, and Australian Army personnel in the war zone.

The Australian War Memorial also holds a large range of contemporary images relating to the Afghanistan conflict. These images produced by artists Peter Churcher, George Gittoes, and Sean Hobbs, document the involvement of the Australian Air Force and Australian Army. The Australian War Memorial has a long history of official war artists documenting conflicts, going back to the First World War.

On ANZAC Day, we commemorate all New Zealanders and Australians who have served in a military campaign.

View Picture Australia’s ANZACs at Gallipoli trail.

Crew members from HMAS Kanimbla

Parker, David Dare, Crew members from HMAS Kanimbla relax with a guitar session on the ship's flight deck, 2003. AWM P04103.216

March Flickr report 2008

1 April 2008

View highlights from contributors to Picture Australia's Flickr groups during March.

Read report (15.2 kb PDF file)

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February Flickr report 2008

View highlights from contributors to Picture Australia's Flickr groups during February.

Read report (17kb PDF file)

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Link to a search result

21 February 2008

Do you want to return to particular picture searches so you can reliably cite them in Wikipedia, articles or essays? See our Search Help page for details on how to create simple, linkable searches on Picture Australia that always return results.

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International Migrants Day

18 December 2007

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Picture Australia's new Gold Rush trail!

November 2007

Strike it lucky with Picture Australia’s new Gold Rush trail and see how the industry has developed in Australia, since the discovery of gold in 1851.

Visit the Culture and Recreation portal for more information on Australia’s gold rush.

Gold Rush cover picture
Detail of: "Historical - Relics - Gold-washing 'tub and cradle' at Sovereign Hill Historical Park, Ballarat, Victoria", National Archives of Australia, A1500:K26453.


National Recycling Week

12 - 18 November 2007

Browse through our Environment trails and see why it's important to keep Australia clean and beautiful!

Visit the Planet Ark website for further National Recycling Week information.

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Remembrance Day

11 November 2007

This Remembrance Day, take a moment to reflect upon the Australian men and women involved in our military history.

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Introducing the Picture Australia: Ourtown group!

March 2007

Following our successful People, places and events group, Picture Australia has opened a new group called Picture Australia: Ourtown and we invite all Flickr members to contribute images.

Ourtown is designed to capture Australia’s rural and urban spaces, illustrating everyday activities such as your work or home.

You could find an historical image of your town in Picture Australia and then recreate the image and upload it to the Ourtown group, showing everyone how your community has developed over the ages.

As with the photographs in the People, places and events group, the photographs from ‘Ourtown’ will be made available through Picture Australia. Ourtown images will be available in Picture Australia after 15 April 2007.

See our Flickr instructions for more information.

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ACT Bushfire Memorial, 2007
The memorial was designed by Canberra artists Martyn Jolly and Tony Steel 

Architecture Week 2007

20 October - 28 October

Enjoy Picture Australia's architecture trails!

For more information visit the Royal Australian Institute of Architects' website and view the events for each state and territory chapter.

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Happy International Women's Day!

8th March 2007

Meet the women who have blazed a trail through Australian Society.

Celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month.

Cathy Freeman

Picture Australia's new look and feel

19 September 2007

Over the last year a cross-disciplinary design team in the Library worked to distill ideas coming from our participating agencies, Picture Australia researchers and from a Picture Australia Website Performance Expert Review by Nielsen //Net Ratings commissioned in 2006. Recommendations to improve the service included clearer navigation, relevance ranking of search results and a 'favourites' function.

The redesign has factored in rigorous research on what our researchers do and don’t do on the site. All this research and consultation has been integrated into the new design. Please Contact us to tell us what you think of the new site.

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The Sydney Harbour Bridge turns 75!

March 2007

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened on 19 March 1932.

Seventy five years on the Bridge remains one of Australia’s favourite icons. See where it all began and help celebrate its birthday with Picture Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge trail.

Sydney Harbour Bridge
Detail of: "Aberdeen & Commonwealth line, one class only to Australia via Suez Canal", nla.pic-an21316762, National Library of Australia