Selected Publications
Books and exhibition catalogues, Major essays, contributions to books etc, Articles and essays in periodicals, catalogues etc.
Books and exhibition catalogues
2008
Helen Ennis, A Modern Vision: Charles Bayliss, Photographer,
1850-1897. Canberra:
National Library of Australia, 2008
2007
Helen Ennis, Photography and Australia. London: Reaktion Books, 2007
Helen Ennis, Reveries: Photography & mortality. Canberra: National Portrait Gallery, 2007
2005
Helen Ennis, Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography. Canberra:
National Gallery of Australia, 2005
2004
Helen Ennis, Intersections: Photography, history and the National
Library of Australia’s Collection,
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2004
2003
Helen Ennis, In a new light: Australian Photography 1850s-1930s. Canberra:
National Library of Australia, 2003
2002
Helen Ennis, Man with a camera: Frank Hurley overseas. Canberra: National
Library of Australia, 2002
2000
Helen
Ennis, Olive Cotton. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000 [curator and author of exhibition catalogue]
Helen Ennis, Mirror with a memory: Photographic portraiture in
Australia. Canberra: National Portrait Gallery, 2000 [curator
and author of exhibition catalogue; also with essay by Geoffrey Batchen]
1996
Helen
Ennis, The reflecting eye: Portraits of Australian
Visual Artists. Canberra: National Portrait Gallery, 1996
[curator and author of exhibition catalogue]
1995
Helen
Ennis, Olive Cotton. Photographer. Canberra: National
Library of Australia, 1995 [reprinted 2004]
Helen Ennis, ‘Past/Present’, Sue Ford. A Survey.
1960-1995. Melbourne: Monash University Gallery, 1995 [curator
of exhibition and coordinator of catalogue]
1994
Introduction, Harold
Cazneaux. The Quiet Observer. Canberra: National Library of Australia,
1994 [reprinted 1997, 2004]
1991
Helen
Ennis and Bob Jenyns, Living in the 70s: Photographs by Carol Jerrems.
Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1991 [exhibition catalogue]
Max Dupain Photographs. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1991
[exhibition catalogue]
1989
Helen
Ennis with assistance from Kate Davidson and Kylie Scroope, Photography
: 150 Years. Canberra:
Australian National Gallery and ASM Group, 1989 [catalogue]
1988
Helen Ennis
and Isobel Crombie, Australian Photographs in the Australian National Gallery
Collection. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1988 [booklet]
Helen Ennis with assistance from Kate Davidson, Australian Photography
: The 1980s. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1988 [catalogue]
Major essays, contributions to books etc
2005
‘Portraiture
in extremis’ in Daniel Palmer (ed.), Photogenic. Melbourne:
Centre for Contemporary Photography [forthcoming]
2003
‘Seeing
and not knowing’, Meanjin on PNG, no.3, 2003
2002
Helen Ennis, ‘A
National Photographic Collection’ in Peter Cochrane (ed.), Remarkable
Occurrences. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2002
1999
‘Postwar
Australian Landscape Photography’, History of Photography,
vol.23, no.2, 1999, pp.136-141
Guest editor Art Monthly. Photography now, October, no.124,
1999, including an article ‘The promised land? Photography
and the market’, pp.11-14
‘Painted pictures’ in Blair French (ed.) Photo-Files.
Sydney: Power Publications and Australian Centre for Photography, 1999 (first
published Photofile,
Autumn 1987)
1998
Helen Ennis, ‘Margaret
Michaelis in context’ in Juan Jose Lahuerta and Jordana Mendelson, Margaret
Michaleis. Fotografia, Vanguardia I Politica a la Barcelona de la Republica.
Valencia: IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, 1998
1997
Helen
Ennis, ‘Blue hydrangeas: Four émigré photographers’ in
Roger Butler (ed.), The Europeans. Émigré Artists
in Australia 1930-1960. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia,
1997, pp.102-119
‘Don’t look back: Helmut Newton’s Australian years’ Photofile,
no.52, December, 1997, pp.10-15
‘The rise and rise of documentary photography?’ in Leica Documentary
Photography Exhibition and Award. Melbourne: Centre for Contemporary Photography,
1997
Helen Ennis, ‘Subject to change’ in Anne Bamford (ed.), Viewpoints.
Visual arts case
studies. Heinemann, 1997
‘Partnerships’, Photofile, no.53, April, 1997, pp.24-28
1994
Pictograms:
Aspects of Contemporary Photographic Practice, Australian Exhibitions
Touring Agency, 1994
1993
‘An
optic parable: Surrealism and Photography’ in Michael Lloyd (ed.) Surrealism:
Revolution by Night. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1993: pp.156-170
[catalogue essay]
‘Sacred
fire’ in Geoffrey Burke and Peter Weiermair, eds., Second Nature.
Peter Peryer, Photographer, New Zealand. Zurich: Edition Stemmle and New
Zealand: Wellington City Gallery, 1993
1992
‘Photography
and public life’ in Juliana Engberg, Location. Contemporary
photo based work from Australia. Melbourne: Australian Centre
of Contemporary Art, 1992: pp.35-42 [catalogue essay]
‘Analogues’ and ‘1992’, Graeme Hare. Melbourne:
Graeme Hare, 1992[catalogue essays]
‘The end of nature’, 42' South, Hobart: Chameleon Contemporary
Art Space, 1992 [catalogue essay]
‘Searching for Geoffrey Powell’ in Stuart Koop, ed., Shot. Melbourne:
Centre for Contemporary Photography, 1992
1990
‘To
Canada’ in Karen Love, Aurora Australis. North Vancouver, Canada:
Presentation House, 1990: pp.7-14 [catalogue essay]
‘Homage
to Sight : the photographs of Miriam Stannage’ in Seva Frangos and Margaret
Moore, Miriam Stannage. Perception 1969-1989. Perth: Art Gallery of
Western Australia, 1990: pp.17-19 [catalogue essay]
1988
‘Contemporary
Photographic Practices’ in Gael Newton, Shades
of Light: Photography and Australia 1839-1988. Sydney: Collins Australia
and Australian National Gallery, 1988: pp.134-161
‘Photography: New Directions’ in Joyce Agee, The Thousand Mile
Stare. Melbourne: Victorian Centre for Photography, 1988: pp.95-100 [catalogue
essay]
1987
‘Painted
photographs’, Photofile, vol.4, no.4, Autumn, 1987: pp.11-14
1986
‘1970s
Australian Photographic Practice: A Homogenous View?’, Photofile,
vol.4, no.1, Autumn, 1986:
pp.12-15
‘Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Photography and Film in Weimar Germany’, Photofile,
vol.4, no.2, Spring, 1986: pp.30-32
‘The 1970s and Now’, Afterimage (USA), vol.14, no.2, September,
1986: pp.7-8
Articles and essays in periodicals, catalogues etc.
2005
‘Margaret
Michaelis: love, loss and photography’, artonview, no. 42, Winter
2005, pp.28-34
‘The
outsider. 1904: Korea through Australian eyes’, Australian Book Review,
no. 272, June-July 2005, p.50
2004
‘Made
in Australia: Contemporary Documentary Photography’, National Library
News,, December 2004, pp.7-11
‘This picture speaks for itself: Photography and the First World War’, National
Library News, July 2004, pp.13-17
‘Narratives
of war’, ozhistorybytes
‘Unhurried:
Tribute to Olive Cotton’, Australian Art Monthly, no.167, 1,
March 2004
2003
‘Seeing
and not knowing’, Muse, May 2003
‘National
news’, Australian Book Review, no.256, November
Dacre Stubbs obituary, Photofile, no.70
‘In
a New Light’, National Library News, November, 2003, pp.3-7
2002
‘Gentle
Men’, Art Monthly, May 2002, no.149, pp.20-22
Entries on Harold Cazneaux, Olive Cotton and Margaret Michaelis, Australian
Art in the National Gallery of Australia. Canberra: National
Gallery of Australia, 2002
2001
‘The
pleasures of the past’ in Photofile, Autumn, 2001
2000
‘Drawing
with light: The photography of Olive Cotton’, National Library News,
August 2000, pp.11-15
‘The future of history’ in Robert Imhoff (ed.), The Fuji ACMP
Australian Photographers Collection, 6, ACMP, 2000
1999
Introduction, Wolfgang
Sievers. Melbourne: WriteLight, 1999
1997
‘Heaven
of blossoms: Harold Cazneaux's garden’ in Australian Garden History,
May 1997
‘Visual Anthropology: The Photographs of Judith Ahern’, Albury
Regional Art Centre, unpublished broadsheet, June 1997
Fashion photography, Australian Review of Books, 1997
1996
‘Julia
Church’ in A Matter of Making (Part One). Canberra: Canberra
School of Art Gallery, 1996
‘Cartoons
in clay: Bev Hogg’ in Pottery in Australia, vol.35, no.4, Summer
1996
1995
‘Metamorphoses’, Traces,
an installation of images and texts by Christl Berg. Launceston: University
of Tasmania, 1995 [exhibition catalogue]
‘Inter-relationships’ in Graduate Diploma Exhibition 1995. Canberra:
Canberra School of Art [catalogue essay]
Entries on Olive Cotton and Margaret Michaelis in Joan Kerr, ed., Heritage,
The National Women's Art Book. Sydney: Craftsman
House, 1995
1994
‘Janet
Burchill and Jennifer McCamley’ and ‘Simon Linke’ in Mary
Eagle, ed., Virtual reality. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia,
1994 [catalogue essays]
‘Peter Peryer’, AETA Newsletter, 1994
1993
‘A
shared future’, From Van Diemens Land to Video Land : Colour Laser
Prints by Sue Ford. Canberra: Canberra School of Art Gallery, 1993 [catalogue
essay]
‘Garden of Earthly Delights: The Work of Fiona Hall’, Photofile,
no.38, March 1993: pp.37-39 [exhibition review]
‘The real face of the world’ (Werner Bischof) in Stages,
1993
1992
‘Hedda
Morrison’, Art Monthly, no.50, June 1992: pp.14-16
‘No Asia = No Photographs’, Art Monthly, no.54, October
1992: pp.22-24 [book review]
‘Re-viewing Olive Cotton's photographs’. Olive Cotton.
Canberra: aGOG, 1992 [catalogue essay]
Foreword, 175' East. Wanganui, New Zealand: Sarjeant
Gallery, 1992
1990
‘Letter
from Europe, Photofile, Summer 1990: pp.30-32
‘Photography and history’ in Josef Lebovic and Joanne Cahill, eds., Masterpieces
of Australian Photography. Sydney: Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1990: pp.6-8
[catalogue introduction]
1989
‘Happy 150th, Photography’, Vogue, August 1989: pp.182-183
‘One and the other', Barbara Hanrahan. Canberra: aGOG, 1989[catalogue
introduction]
1988
‘David
Moore: New Australians’, entry in Daniel Thomas, ed., Creating Australia:
200 Years of Art 1788-1988. Sydney: ICCA and the Art Gallery of South
Australia, 1988
‘Beyond the Tyranny of Distance’, Creative Camera (U.K.)
11/1988: pp.9
‘Barbara Hanrahan', Imprint, 1-2 June 1988: pp.22-23 [book review]
1987
‘My
Body, My Labour’, Photofile, Summer 1987/88, pp.25-27
‘Biography on Carol Jerrems’ for McMillan, Dictionary of Art, 1987
‘Australian Women Photographers in the 1970s’, Against The
Grain, Summer 1987
1985
‘Diane
Arbus and the dark side of the American dream’, Photofile, vol.3,
no.2, Winter 1985: pp.18-22
‘Day for Night by Alan Cruickshank’ book review, Art and Australia,
Spring 1985
‘Harry Callahan and Artists' Wives’, Photofile, vol.3,
no 3, Spring 1985: pp.17-20
‘Recent
Australian Photography’, Professional Photography, December 1985
1984
‘Eugène
Atget: Whose Myth?’, Photofile, Summer 1984: pp.1-2
1983
‘Melbourne
Galleries’, Photofile, Sydney, Winter 1983: pp.14
1981
‘Photography
Review: Henri Cartier-Bresson’, Lot's Wife, Melbourne, March
30, 1981: p.15
‘Photography
Review: Duane Michals’, Lot's Wife, Melbourne, September 7,
1981: p.17.