Photography: Real and Imagined at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

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.

For more information visit: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/photography-real-imagined/

Image credit: Hank WILLIS THOMAS, Amelia falling 2014 (detail), photographic print, mirror and glass, 166.0 x 135.0 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Bowness Family Fund for Photography, 2017, 2017.462 © Hank Willis Thomas. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York