Discover PIX: The magazine that changed everything

Name: Discover PIX: The magazine that changed everything
Start: 2025-02-25T17:30:00+11:00
End: 2025-02-25T18:30:00+11:00
Location: State Library of New South Wales

Schedule

Tue Feb 25 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

State Library of New South Wales | Sydney, NS

Join a curator-led tour of the exhibition PIX, exploring the story of the people and pictures that made the magazine for the first time.
About this Event

With its eye-catching lipstick-red logo, PIX delivered a new style of journalism, using photographs to tell daring stories of modern life. Always intended to shock, entertain and inform, PIX stayed popular with its readers for over 30 years.

Exploring the story of the people and pictures that made the magazine for the first time, join a guided tour of PIX: The magazine that changed everything with curator Margot Riley.

This tour will meet in the Photography Gallery (Lower Ground Floor, Mitchell Building)

Margot Riley is a curator in the Collection Acquisition & Curation Branch of the State Library of NSW. A cultural historian with special interests in art, popular culture, photography and dress, she has curated numerous exhibitions and displays for the Library, and written and lectured extensively about its collections.