
Mirror, mirror: reflections on 80 years of Victoria’s social history – in pictures
Melting moments by the Huxleys, 2021, is part of the State Library Victoria’s new exhibition Mirror: New Views on Photography
The State Library Victoria is showcasing a selection of its extensive photography collection in the new exhibition Mirror: New Views on Photography. Connected by the theme of ‘mirror’, the images have been picked by curators Jade Hadfield, Kate Rhodes and Linda Short
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Unidentified girl near a shopfront, with the reflection of a boy on a bike in the window, Gardenvale.
Photograph: Maggie Diaz
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Equal love march #14: Melbourne, 20 May 2017.
Photograph: Maylei Hunt
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Security surveillance at Ford research division, Broadmeadows plant, 1970.
Photograph: Wolfgang Sievers
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Terylene promotion, 1952-58.
Photograph: Helmut Newton
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Demonstrator in a balaclava crouching on a window sill of the Crown Casino World Economic Forum S11 demonstration in September, 2000.
Photograph: Jesse Marlow
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Olivia Newton-John, 1963.
Photograph: Robert Whitaker
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Alexandrino Da Costa, a Timor-Leste refugee protesting at a rally on the West Gate Bridge to bring attention to the plight of family members forcibly removed to West Timor, 1999.
Photograph: Ross Bird
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A performer in a drag show and cabaret at Tricia’s nightclub in Melbourne, March, 1979.
Photograph: Viva Gibb
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A group of women during the march marking the 28th anniversary of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, 2002.
Photograph: Georgia Metaxas
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Flat Fleet De-enactment, Fitzroy swimming pool, 22 January 1988.
Photograph: Dyandra Prevost
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Muslim women at the end of Ramadan fasting, 1994.
Photograph: Viva Gibb
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Building a home away from home, photographs of Iranian immigrants.
Photograph: Katayoun Javan
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Gordon, young man, punk, Greville Street Prahran. 1985.
Photograph: Rennie Ellis