Thought is a portrait of the artist’s niece in a distinctly Australian costume adorned with appliqued gum leaves and a gum nut belt. The sitter is pictured in a meditative pose and the evocative title of the photograph encourages an allegorical interpretation of the work. The photograph is an exhibition-size print in its original frame. Hollick entered ‘Thought’ in the Colonial Exhibition in London in 1921 and was awarded a bronze medal. src NGV
The exhibition Photography: Real and Imagined (2023-2024) examines two perspectives on photography; photography grounded in the real world, as a record, a document, a reflection of the world around us; and photography as the product of imagination, storytelling and illusion. On occasion, photography operates in both realms of the real and the imagined.
Highlighting major photographic works from the NGV Collection, including recent acquisitions on display for the very first time, Photography: Real and Imagined examines the complex, engaging and sometimes contradictory nature, of all things photographic. The NGV’s largest survey of the photography collection, the exhibition includes more than 300 works by Australian and international photographers and artists working with photo-media from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. / The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
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Wonderful to have Australian content! ‘Photography: Real and Imagined’ was, I think, NGV’s best showing of the medium, and its collection was the earliest of any public institution in the country. Thank you for all your posts and the inspiration that they instil.
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Oh thank you, James, I really appreciate you took the time to write those nice lines. It was a pleasure to go through these wonderful photos. It was really hard to build a selection, everything was amazingly beautiful. I do love Australian pictorialism, but sometimes we forgot there more beyond the great and very well-known Cazneaux
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