
Divers by Margaret Michaelis

images that haunt us


Four girls in swimming costumes in shallow water. Two are sitting in the water and two are standing. The photograph shows Jeanette Veronica Brady and her friends, probably at St Kilda Beach, Melbourne, Australia, ca. 1910.

Luke Tscharke :: Barossa Valley, South Australia, 2015 | src St John Photography on Twitter

Senior girls from “Leonians” pose on the lawn for photographers, doing a Swedish Drill. Australia, 1940’s / src: physical culture

Arthur Wigram Allen :: Woman, standing with her back to the camera, watching HMS departure from Sydney Harbour
through a telescope
on board the Pyramus, 5 September 1907./ source: Museum of Sydney

Olive Cotton :: Dead Sunflowers, 1984-1994. Silver gelatin photograph printed by Olive Cotton. / src: Josef Lebovic Gallery
Image taken at “Spring Forest”, the property near Koorawatha, NSW, where Cotton and her family lived from 1951.
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Judith Crispin :: Tabra Nakamarra’s Puppy. Lajamanu Community NT, June 2015 – From the photobook ‘The Lumen Seed’ by Judith Crispin (2016)

Judith Crispin :: The Lord’s Return is Near, Coober Pedy SA, November 2014. From the book
‘The Lumen Seed’ by Judith Crispin (2016) / source: ArtBlart

Beach inspector Aub Laidlaw at Bondi Beach, 16 November 1958. / src: Getty / The Sydney Morning Herald