Exhibitions

Of love and war opens at State Library Queensland

After a week long installation period, Of love and war was officially opened at the State Library of Queensland by Chris McHugh, CEO of RSL Queensland, on Friday November 5. The invited audience of 130 guests also heard a short presentation by Rebecca Britt, Acting Senior Curator in Military Heraldry and ...

Of Love and War - coming soon

Major new exhibition opening at SLQ The excitement of blossoming romance, the pain of separation and the great joy of reunion are captured in a major new exhibition opening on Saturday 6 November 2010 in the slq Gallery, Level 2 of the State Library of Queensland's South Bank building. Of love and war ...

The panoramic record: from floods to festival

Unknown photographer, Ceremonial laying of the foundation stone for the Holy Name Cathedral, Brisbane 1928 The wide format of the panoramic photograph lends itself well to the recording of significant historical events, natural disasters and commemorations. The Panoramic Queensland exhibition includes a selection of images that document important moments in the ...

Panoramas in the State Library of Queensland collection

The John Oxley Library holds a comprehensive collection of photographs relating to the history and continuing development of Queensland. The collection contains over 1.5 million images including copy prints, original photographs, glass plate negatives, celluloid negatives and albums. Included in the collection are at least 100 original, large format, panoramic ...

What is a panorama?

Chas A. Jenkinson, Ayr c. 1926 Many people confuse panoramas with cropped or narrow, landscape-format photographs. A true panoramic photograph, however, is a photograph or series of photographs representing a continuous scene of at least 110 degrees. Most panoramic images are equivalent or wider than the human field of vision which ...

Earliest panorama of Brisbane features in new panoramic photography exhibition

Take a wider view of Queensland’s 150 year history in the State Library of Queensland’s latest exhibition, Panoramic Queensland. To mark the Sesquicentenary of Queensland, 26 rare and historically significant panoramic photographs have been selected from the John Oxley Library’s extensive photographic collection. Displayed together with albums, printed publications and ...

Recent blog updates

Visitors to this blog may have noticed some changes in the sidebar. You can now subscribe to a comments feed, which augments the existing feeds for blog posts and the State Library of Queensland website news. (Help with RSS feeds is available.) Also available now is a monthly archive, listing links to posts published each month. ...

Visitors’ book comment

Someone has noted in the Freestyle Books exhibition visitors book: ‘If I was a book I’d want to live here.’ I think so too.

Can artists’ books be electronic?

There has been much discussion over many years regarding the death of the book and its replacement by the e-book, and several systems developed to allow this to happen, until now only in a limited fashion. But you still see people reading novels on the bus or train and not ...

What is an artist’s book?

Marshal Weber in his keynote address to the third Artspace Mackay Artists’ Book Forum likened discussions about the definition of artists’ books to Groundhog Day. I agree that such discussions seem to go round and round, with much disagreement and not much constructive headway. For me the idea that an ...