In September, 2019 an important photographic collection for Australian football was secured thanks to two football federations and seven individuals interested in Australian football history and heritage. See https://footballtoday.news/features/a-part-of-australian-football-history-secured-for-australian-football
64,000 Australian politicians
Daniel Miller being interviewed live on the Today Show, November 23, 2019. He speaks about the section of the Sydney Morning Herald vintage photo archive his team sorted and extracted that includes every notable Australian politician since the 1920s.
ABC Radio interview by Ed Ayres on The Art Show
Daniel Miller was interviewed on September 18, 2018 by the ABC about his mission to bring some two-million Australian photographs back to their country. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/daniel-miller/10264670
Daniel Miller on Channel Seven
Interview that updates the story around the process to sort, store and find homes in Australia for two million historic photographs, previously owned by Fairfax Media.
Vintage photographs at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
Review excerpt from the Sydney Morning Herald: Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2018
The Duncan Miller Gallery from Los Angeles, is selling prints from the two million-strong photographic archive of the Sydney Morning Herald, which was sent to Arkansas to be scanned in 2013, and never came home. After the scanning company went bankrupt the Miller Gallery bought the entire collection from a receiver, and are engaged in selling the prints – by figures such as Max Dupain, David Moore, Olive Cotton and Jeff Carter – back to Australia. In this one can only applaud their efforts.
- John McDonald
September 14, 2018
HomeToAustralia.org presents vintage photographs in its busy booth at Sydney Contemporary.
50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs: Daniel Miller
Entrepreneur Magazine
November 1, 2017
It was supposed to be a simple transaction. Fairfax Media, one of Australia’s largest media companies, wanted to digitize two million photos in its newspaper archives. So it struck a deal with an Arkansas company that would scan the images and could then sell off the originals. In 2013, Fairfax shipped over the photos. A few months later, the FBI raided the Arkansas company and charged it with an unrelated fraud. (Its owner pleaded guilty this March.) Years passed. A bank took control of the photos and would likely sell them off indiscriminately.
When Los Angeles–based photo dealer Daniel Miller heard about the situation this year, he asked to take a look. “To see a collection that was a pictorial survey of the history of a country was amazing,” he says. “My idea was that these should be sent back, but I couldn’t find any entity that could deal with something this big.”
Vice Media: Sorting through two million photographs
After Los Angeles photo gallerist Daniel Miller rescued the Sydney Morning Herald photo archive, his team had to sort its two million photo prints - by hand.
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/43xkpg/2-million-photo-archive-sydney-morning-herald-arkansas
How a Santa Monica Art Dealer Came to Control Much of Australia’s Photographic History
ArtNet
July 14, 2017
The tale of a struggling Australian media company, a shady American photo archive, an FBI raid, and two million vintage Australian photographs stranded in Arkansas will have a happy ending, thanks to Daniel Miller, the owner of Santa Monica’s Duncan Miller Gallery.
“It’s the living breathing history,” Miller told artnet News. “This was either going to be thrown away, or it was going to be brokered out to a bunch of eBay agents.”
Continue: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/australian-newspaper-photo-archive-rescued-1020998
History for sale as SMH archive, valued at $US82m, seeks a home
The Australian
June 27, 2017
It was one of the stranger deals in Australian media, even before it went wrong.
The Sydney Morning Herald photo archive is being touted for sale, four years after Fairfax Media gave it to smooth-talking US businessman John Rogers, in exchange for a promise he would digitise all the images without charge but would retain ownership of the hard copies.
Californian photography dealer Daniel Miller was in Sydney last week trying to raise $10 million for the two million pictures, which date from the turn of last century to the 1990s.
Continue: https://www.facebook.com/duncanmillergallery/posts/1748562658494538
Historic Fairfax archive rescued
ProCounter Photography Magazine
June 25, 2017
Two million Fairfax photos, a pictorial first draft of Australia’s history dating back to the 20th century, may soon return home after being trapped for years in a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas. Miller sifting through the Fairfax archive in a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas. Photo: Rob Penfold Daniel Miller, director of Duncan Miller gallery in California, acquired the Fairfax archive from bankruptcy lawyers, who took control of the original photos and negatives which had been sent to a convicted conman for digitisation.
Continue: https://procounter.com.au/2017/06/20/historic-fairfax-photos-rescued-arkansas/