Reveries: Photography & Mortality
Helen Ennis, 2007
About
Photography has long been an integral part of life’s ordinary and extraordinary rituals. This catalogue is concerned with photographs made in the presence of or consciousness of death. It features work by Australian and New Zealand photographers from the late 1970s up to the present day.
263 pages
illustrations
ISBN: 0977576108
Published by the National Portrait Gallery
Awards
Winner, best major catalogue and best in show at the Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards 2009.
Resources
National Portrait Gallery mini website: Reveries: Photography and Mortality
Photographing death: Life Matters on ABC Radio National
Feature on ABC TV Sunday Arts – Reveries: Photography and Mortality
Frank Brennan’s opening address May 2007
Helen Ennis’s essay for Portrait magazine
Reviews
Australian Book Review, issue 296, 2007 by Isobel Crombie
Available from
Second hand bookstores.