Shot - private tour of the photographic exhibition with curator.

5:15pm, Tue, 4 Jun 2024

  • Event Details
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  • Type of event: Outings
    Start time: 5:15pm
    Duration: 45 min
    External website related to this event: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/shot
    Venue: NSW State Library
    Description: Shot - private tour of the photographic exhibition with curator.
    The club has arrange a private viewing of the "Shot" photographic exhihition at the NSW State Library. We will be joined by the curator of the exhibition Geoffrey Barker who will give us an insight into the creation of the exhibition.
    "The Library’s photographic archives — one of the largest, most diverse and significant in Australia — illustrate tens of thousands of Australian stories, and collectively form a unique pictorial history of the past 180 years. Shot includes at least one photograph to represent nearly every year between 1845 and 2022. . It also includes the work of over 200 professional, commercial, studio, press and amateur photographers, and works by some of Australia’s most acclaimed photographers" (extract from the Shot brochure).