Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits Painting his paintings interrogate common ideas

his paintings interrogate common ideas about Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians’ relationships to each other

The exhibition

Joel Arthur

and makes the sly suggestion that the one might be a metaphor for the other

Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits Painting his paintings interrogate common ideasCo published by Perimeter Editions and the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Auto Photo: A Life in Portraits tells the story of Alan Adler, a man who is likely the most photographed person in Australia, and is also perhaps the oldest and longest serving photobooth technician in the world. For more than fifty years, Adler maintained a suite of photobooths across Melbourne Naarm most notably, at a site near Flinders Street Station and would undertake