The Art Gallery of NSW is staging two free photographic exhibitions with important historical content during the summer season.

 

December 14, 2007: The Art Gallery of NSW is staging two free photographic exhibitions with important historical content during the summer season.
Extraordinary images of ordinary people: the photographs of August Sander is a visiting display from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. It features portraits taken by August Sander, who spent 40 years photographing the citizens of his native country, Germany. Remarkable for their unflinching realism and deft analysis of character and lifestyle, Sander’s individual images stand out as high points of photographic portraiture. The exhibition remains on display until 3 February, 2008.
Yasumasa Morimura: Seasons of Passion / A Requiem combines a display of photography by Japanese photographer, Yasumasa Mishima with a DVD video based on the writer, Yukio Mishima’s pre-suicide diatribe from 1970. In his 2006 series Morimura recreates memorable postwar incidents as reported through press photography. Mishima made use of contemporary events in many of his works and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times. His writing gained him international celebrity and a sizable following in Europe and America. This exhibition runs until 9 March 2008.