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Titles tagged with ‘portraits’

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Snapshots around ‘Madras’ home movie – c1926

This is a good example of how, in the early days of moving images, people would often pose for the camera as if they were posing for a still photograph.

Living Room documentary – 1988

This beautiful, unsettling experimental documentary is a meditation on Australian suburbia and notions of home.

The Picture Woman short film – 1997

Over a series of seemingly unrelated images, a woman speaks in voice-over of taking a photo of herself every other day.