On the cover this month
Simon O'Dwyer (b. 1969)
Superman injection [between c.1996 and c.2004]
b&w, photograph; 27.9 x 43.2 cm
In: Simon O'Dwyer collection of photographs
Picture Collection,
nla.pic-vn3085560
This
portrait by Simon O'Dwyer is one of some 50 of his photographs viewable
online from the Library’s collection. They principally portray the
Victorian bushfires in January 2003, but other subjects include
protests at the Word Economic Forum in Melbourne 2000, skindivers,
windmills, and this image of a child being innoculated. The
photographer describes the scenario:
'Assigned to photograph
the annual immunisation week, I arrived at a preschool full of nervous
parents waiting with their children for a shot ... I had photographed a
dozen children when this little boy wearing a thick jumper arrived and
sat down. The doctor was unable to get the sleeve high enough for the
procedure, so his mother removed the garment to reveal a t-shirt with
the hand made word of Superman. As the needle pricked his skin his face
grimaced in pain creating a beautiful moment'.
December 2004 Volume XV Number 3
FROM THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL: RETROSPECT, AND LOOKING AHEAD
Penelope Layland asks Director-General Jan Fullerton about the Library’s past 12 months, and the looming year of consolidation in 2005
MADE IN AUSTRALIA: CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Helen Ennis, curator, previews some work from the National Library’s current exhibition, In a New Light: Australian Photography 1930s-2000
EXQUISITE HOURS OF LIFE: AUSTRALIA'S SOCIAL WHIRL REVEALED THROUGH EPHEMERA
Richard Stone highlights some frail fragments from Australia’s past as preserved in the Ephemera Collection
INVESTING IN COMMUNITY
Diana Giese looks at ways in which the Friends of Libraries Australia (FOLA) have worked with their communities, and their plans for the future
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: AUSTRALIAN PULP FICTION 1939-59
Toni Johnson-Woods introduces the Library’s latest publication, her book Pulp: A Collector’s Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
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