Viewfinder is (for a few more days) an exhibition of photos from the collection of the National Library at the NLA. It's subtitled photography from the 1970s to now, but I strangely found it a bit unrelatable. I shouldn't given it is my era. It's only ~150 pics but even so I was surprised that I recognised so few. Perhaps because they were seldom (if ever?) by photojournalists. What do I remember? A Tracey Moffat self portrait; a few of the environment and animals and the bush; Sylvania Waters (to suffer early from rising oceans?); Catholic and Anglican cemeteries; just a few pollies (Whitlam, Hawke and Howard); interestingly, some workers from when we had secondary industries (very casually dressed, somewhat pre-OH&S); something of youth cultures (hippies, sharpies and surfers); some old streets and buildings and the like. I was totally dumbfounded once or twice. The middle room at the underground dwelling at Kings Cross was something totally unknown to me; homelessness of the period, I guess. A few pics. You can see the exhibition online by working your way through the catalogue entries.
Viewfinder : photography from the 1970s to now was an exhibition at the National Library of Australia.
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