Picks from PIX: Australia in photos 1938–1965

The hundreds of thousands of photographs that make up the PIX magazine archive form one of the most important pictorial collections that document Australia in the twentieth century. Join curator Geoff Barker for a slideshow of some of his favourite black-and-white photos by the magazine’s photographers. See some of the very best (and worst) of Australia between 1938 and 1965. Taking in everything from sleazy Sydney after dark to sword tricks, studio camera stunts and high-profile portraits, this talk will serve up some unexpected insights into a nation changing as never before.

Geoff Barker is a Senior Curator at the State Library of NSW. He studied at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, before coming to Australia in 1987. Geoff has worked as a curator with the Macleay Museum collections, now at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, and at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. He specialises in the history of photography from Australia and Oceania and is an enthusiastic supporter of open-source projects.

Photo credit: Outside St James Station, early hours of the morning, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, 18 August 1949 by L. Bartholomew

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