Photography Real and Imagined

Probably the MOST comprehensive and breathtaking exhibition of photography is currently open at the National Gallery of Victoria in the Ian Potter Centre.

Here is how the NGV describes the show:

Photography: Real and Imagined 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 200 works by Australian and international photographers and artists working with photo-media from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

I am still thinking about it a month later. I encourage you all to make the pilgrimage on this one, it is worth the air fare.

P.S., I’m still on that one road trip, what a week!