https://onthisdateinphotography.com/2026/09/07/september-7-omnibus/On This Date in Photography: by James Mcardleen2026-09-07T08:44:53+00:00September 7: Omnibusphotography, design, France, monochrome, Paris, art, book, rangefinder, document, partnership, interpretation, aesthetics, cropping, Bryan Gracey, colour, negatives, audience, curator, context, compassion, student, interior, Australian photography, James McArdle, hands, darkroom, mobile phone, display, reference, everyday life, photographic paper, content, invention, Odyssey, candid, architecture, expression, nostalgia, photojournalist, trust, memory, evolution, speech, enlarger, advertisement, selection, magazines, fly-on-the-wall, researcher, Film photography, United States, online, signs, artefacts, judgement, 1974, 1971, 1987, 1975, 1956, 1978, Holiday, view, essay, 1988, 2003, 60s, 70s, physicality, social, 1920s, showcase, newspapers, conversation, cultural, memories, Andrew Chapman, late 1950s, subject, objects, recording, preview, raw, address, current exhibition, University of Melbourne, photographs, catalogue, grandmother, Stella Loftus-Hills, changes, enhanced, easel, reflected, nervous, eyes, segregation, legacy, Australian politics, prints, dry, inspired, published, passengers, helicopter, vanished, Beaumaris, naming, value, Melbourne Town Hall, friend, prompt, life force, City of Melbourne, hot-air balloon, First Nations, records, glimpse, Elsternwick, size, 2023, relocated, 13, Moomba festival, transport, Whitlam government, 55 years, nationally, political scene, wider world, The Melbourne Times, Docklands, CBD, Moorabbin, photographed, archives, contemporary art, free, modest, Bob Hawke, dismissal, Brian Pieper, connect, expert, Caulfield High School, Andrew Chapman OAM, North Melbourne, City Gallery, civic, historical record, ground floor, feature, fan, Melbourne’s history, themed exhibitions, “The Green Bus”, social movements, large town, modern metropolis, concealed, hiding in plain sight, 110 Swanston Street, established in 2002, customer service, red neon, picture window, themed, beautifully designed, Melbourne’s heritage, specialist, guest curator, collects, Art and Heritage Collection, 000 items, storage facility, fourth floor, municipal treasures, civic artefacts, rare items, Olympic memorabilia, floats, crowns, mayoral robes, historical relics, architectural plans, council records, 1837 house brick, cultural markers, traditional custodians, Eastern Kulin Nation public access, open storage, narrative “chapters”, 3 September 2026, opening at City Gallery, Viva Gibbs, ten books, carefully-kept, career as a photojournalist, overlapped, time-line, taken up photography, local news photographer, self-driven project, wool industry, rural Australia, organ transplantation, power industry, captioned, premise, early seventies, fledgling photographer, “poor man’s Leica”, all-metal, Canon Canonet QL17, fixed 45mm lens, speed priority auto exposure, perpetual drive, entry point, show’s title, dark green and cream bus, bayside, tan-orange, service, owned, operated, Ray Allnutt, Sandringham, station, modest size, driver, shift-stick, snooker cue, synchro-mesh, double de-clutching, fares, air-conditioning, pillbox hat, outing, cardboard suitcase, older man, felt hat, signature image, Stephen Banham, massive blow-up, permed, helmet, vehicle, coming of age, trip, state museum, Gas and Fuel Building, Princes Bridge Station, decades, documentary images, time-travel, kid, pick up skills, make errors, 18 years, 30 exhibitions, Master of Art Curatorship, ISBN, everyday scenes, professions, modern urban life, Alec Pearse, hardware store, Claude Butcher, milk cart, horse-drawn, physical newspaper, public phone, architectural scale, flat suburbs, skyline, shifts in Australian society, moments of tension, politically charged, street movements, anti-Vietnam War moratorium, anti-Fraser protest, controversy, identity cards, core historical focus, ordinary Melburnians, major player, taking the photograph, Lord Mayor, Nicholas Reece, municipal achievements, impressed, knowledge of the medium, establishment by Europeans, four years, “the mirror with a memory”, announced, iPhone photo, colour balance, crisp digital print, proportions, 35mm image, printed full-frame, composed in camera, larger margin, landscape-format, large white border, vertical shot, crescent-moon shape, buckle, unprocessed film, developing tank, new generation, rising up, conservative views, anti-Vietnam War movement, moratoriums, 35mm film, presentedhttps://onthisdateinphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/img_5486.jpg?w=150https://onthisdateinphotography.com/2026/09/06/september-6-laminae/On This Date in Photography: by James Mcardleen2026-09-06T00:31:02+00:00September 6: LaminaeLIFE, design, National Gallery of Victoria, nude, montage, Australia, 1972, documentary, exhibition, Rolleiflex, 1960s, model, garment, negatives, Modern Photography, print, landscape, sea, black, slow shutter speed, Modernist, feminist, silhouette, natural, Metamorphosis, publication, spontaneous, Men, Fiona Hall, Venus, media, hands, darkroom, effects, models, refugees, horror, large scale, Anne Ferran, symbol, water, white, students, distortion, Nikon F, grainy, Salon, Weegee, FOAM, persona, woman photographer, dream, poverty, Janine Burke, intention, clean, concrete, St Kilda, high-contrast, Max Dupain, artistic, transparent, supernatural, series, poem, visual art, superimposition, low angle, technique, Martyn Jolly, 1971, symmetry, 1985, 1962, masculine, high contrast, 1975, 1984, face, human, 1969, science fiction, female, Henry Talbot, Contemporary, influence, 1983, 1976, rangefinder camera, imagery, 1936, sandwiching negatives, 1964, photographers, writers, sleeping, home, Nikon, 1967, title, wide-angle, wide-angle lens, time series, Mum, relevant, alternative, child, archetype, catalogue, AGNSW, exhibit, split image, durable, copied, girl, figures, seaweed, passage, cover, popularity, concern, visual, rocks, first, law, god, overlaid, edited, prose, married, folio, handling, art objects, significant, group, at odds, gelatin silver photograph, edition, Gordon De Lisle, written, partners, treatment, mouth, better known, dead, familiar, manufacturer, staring, hobby, conspicuous, doll, slide, team, organisation, threshold, setting sun, Sam Haskins, Barrie Bell, seascape, dying, shell, cavern, Pentax Spotmatic, Daniel Palmer, Ilford paper, apotheosis, guts, divine, Four Photographers, read, Sue Ford, wrong, lenses, raped land, experimental photography, honest, frustrated, merge, appreciation, emerge, head, discover, evoke, embodied, Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light, contemporaneous, Graham Little, Australian art gallery, sand, September 6, Laminae, Carnal Knowledge, two decades, prior, The Tide Recedes, 1969–71, first solo, by a woman, Hawthorn City Art Gallery, highly manipulated, photographic work, Suburban Series, 1962–71, darkroom gimmickry, American magazine, Melbourne University Photography Club, Spilt Image, photographs produced by students, Faces on the Campus: A Psycho-social Study, MUP, Brian Stevenson, Lachlan Arnott, John Julian, Ben Lewin, studying, film and television director, The Dunera Boys, two women, Di Nash, Margaret Harrison, court, Great Hall, newly-opened, acknowledge, Michael Liffman, Robert Manne, Cathy Lowy, Melbourne University Magazine, photographic facilities, South African, enthusiasm, mild admiration, applauds, unrepentantly, photographic hedonism, unpretentious photography, Haskins’ books, Five Girls, November Girl, African Image, known, Cowboy Kate and Other Stories, impressed them, graphic imagery, bold spreads, quintessentially 1960s, Haskins, London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, racy content, narrative continuity, University Photography Club, generously equipped, contributors, privilege who, afford, camera gear, oldest, 24, B.Sc., employed, maths teacher, Nikon Nikkormat FTN, Mamiyaflex C3, studio setup, president of the Club, Linhof 6×9, Yashicamat, metallurgy student, borrowed, Konica Autoreflex T, book’s title, Goon show, focussing mechanism, option, interchangeable focussing screen, double-printed, fabulous looking, blonde, great figure, editors John Julian and Ben Lewin, visual sequences, quirk, integrate, verbal, pictures and words, inevitable, add dimensions, response, doll-like, wide-eyed, recurrent motif, final-year student, Medicine, ruminate, totem, human imitation, stilled, facet, human state, no respect, destructive, playing, Napoleon, sister, executioner, guillotined, teddy bear, carving knife, alliance, imaginary life, staring eyes, eyes blinked, disappointed, paucity, parts, fan, clicking, inanimate replicas, shiver up, plastic eyes, scream, juicy warmth, tongue, throat, dark void, stuffing, hard, second wave of feminism, educated male, infantilising, cultural norm, indulge, deification, female subject, become, emerging, metaphorical plane, merging into the sea, elevate them, female photographer, uncompromising, My Faces, passionate attention, dispassionate use, tell, narrative fashion, psychological history, etched, for all to see, oneself, photomontage technique, extended narrative, women’s bodies, photographed in the studio, maritime littoral, coupling, classical mythology, evokes transformation, female energy, life cycles, transitions, appropriate, reclining subject, achieved, extreme foreshortening, exaggerated, ‘straight’ image, submerged in seaweed, darkroom printing, double-exposing, sequentially, lith film, Pop artists, screen-print, Ilford Photographic Exhibition, Ilford Exhibition, feminist intention, gritty, set out, consciously, return from the dead, her country, female bodies, male eye, admits, product of the darkroom, Port Phillip Bay, meditated, spirit of the sea, yearn, hills, Eltham, Impassioned Clay, thirty-five years earlier, betray, self-consciousness, female form, twisting, assertive, with frames, expressed, Professional Photography in Australia, nude figures, kelp, started out, recognisably human, metamorphosed, sea animal, Temporarily, The Tide Recedes series 1969-71, NGV exhibition, panoramic print, seaweeds, crouches, enwrapped, reduced, sea-swept hair, doubled, marine medusa, ‘book-matching’, flipped negatives, mother-of pearl, bladders, tentacular, viscera, concluding image, female transformedhttps://onthisdateinphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/tide-recedes-2.jpg?w=150