MIRROR: New views on photography
10am to 6pm, daily
State Library Victoria
Free entry, no bookings required
Opening hours
10am to 6pm, daily
Location
State Library Victoria
Bookings
Free entry, no bookings required
ABOUT
Great photography can hold up a mirror to the world and reflect our innermost thoughts and feelings. MIRROR: New views on photography showcases over 140 photographs from the State Collection, alongside creative responses from emerging and established Victorian storytellers to tell fascinating tales of Victoria through a contemporary lens.
ACCESSIBILITY
Displayed in stunning detail, photos of over 140 photographers including Rennie Ellis, Viva Gibb and Helmut Newton will combine with the words, performance and sounds of Alice Skye, Christos Tsiolkas, Jason Tamiru and Walter Kadiki and other storytellers to produce new narratives of Victorian people and places.
The exhibition is Auslan interpreted.
Watch this video for a welcome to the exhibition in Auslan.
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IMAGE HIGHLIGHTS
For this exhibition 141 photographs were chosen to explore the theme of ‘mirror’, dating from 1950 to today. Mirrors can be physical objects (hanging on bathroom walls, the reflection of the sky on a body of water, an imitation or a copy), but they can also be symbolic – revealing other ways of seeing.
Ross Bird
Veronica Pereira Maia, Sydney, 1996
Photographic print (gelatin silver)
1996
Find in catalogue: H99.164/6
Rennie Ellis
Gordon, young man, punk, Greville St., Prahran
Digitised colour slide (35 mm transparency)
1985
Find in catalogue: H2012.140/1406
Sue Ford
Self Portrait With Bouffant
Photographic print (gelatin silver)
1961
Find in catalogue: H99.223/1
Viva Gibb
Moslem women at the end of Ramadan fasting – Eid al-Fitr
Photographic print (gelatin silver)
1994
Find in catalogue: H98.161/69
Norman Ikin
Ballet dancers
Photographic print (gelatin silver)
c. 1950–54
Find in catalogue: H2006.1/4
Wolfgang Sievers
Interior Guest room Menzies Hotel, 509 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Photographic print (Type C)
1965
Find in catalogue: H98.30/400
Ross Bird
Veronica Pereira Maia, Sydney, 1996
Photographic print (gelatin silver)
1996
Find in catalogue: H99.164/6
Rennie Ellis
Gordon, young man, punk, Greville St., Prahran
Digitised colour slide (35 mm transparency)
1985
Find in catalogue: H2012.140/1406
Sue Ford
Self Portrait With Bouffant
Photographic print (gelatin silver)
1961
Find in catalogue: H99.223/1
Viva Gibb
Moslem women at the end of Ramadan fasting – Eid al-Fitr
Photographic print (gelatin silver)
1994
Find in catalogue: H98.161/69
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MEET THE STORYTELLERS
Creative responses by Victorian novelists, essayists, spoken word artists, non-fiction writers, activists, songwriters and poets brings fresh perspectives to the photographs in the State Collection.
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EVENTS
Join us at the Library to delve deeper into MIRROR through talks, tours and workshops.
