Peter Milne (visual artist)

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}

Peter Milne (born 1960) is an Australian photographer and visual artist, born and living in Melbourne.{{cite web|first1=Nick|last1=Miller|accessdate=2020-06-08|title=In search of Melbourne's times past, Peter Milne revisits old images|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/in-search-of-melbourne-s-times-past-peter-milne-revisits-old-images-20200228-p545eg.html|date=28 February 2020|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/melbournes-grimy-and-golden-past/|title=Photos of Melbourne's Grimy and Golden Past|first=Peter|last=Milne|date=19 February 2015}}

Milne studied at Swinburne Community School 1972–73 and undertook the photography course at Prahran College of Advanced Education. He is known for his early work documenting the 1970s Melbourne punk scene{{cite web |url=https://ccp.org.au/education/public-programs/2020/juvenilia-book-launch |access-date=2020-06-08 |title=Juvenilia book launch / Centre for Contemporary Photography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501201703/https://ccp.org.au/education/public-programs/2020/juvenilia-book-launch |archive-date=2020-05-01 |url-status=live}} and the first decade of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.{{cite web |url=http://citycollection.melbourne.vic.gov.au/anthony-morgan/ |access-date=2020-06-08 |website=City Collection |title=Anthony Morgan 1994/2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320105518/http://citycollection.melbourne.vic.gov.au/anthony-morgan/ |archive-date=2020-03-20 |url-status=live}}

The 2018 monograph Fool's Paradise: The Early Years of the Melbourne Comedy Festival consists largely of candid images of comedians taken in bars and backstage.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drawingroom/fools-paradise-behind-the-scenes-at-micf/9576250|title=Fool's Paradise: Backstage at a comedy festival|date=22 March 2018|website=ABC Radio National}} In 2020 he published a book of works made in his late teens and early 20s, Juvenalia,{{cite web|accessdate=2020-06-08|title=Peter Milne - Juvenilia|url=https://paper-journal.com/peter-milne-juvenilia/|date=27 February 2020|website=paper-journal.com}} with photographs of Rowland S. Howard, Nick Cave and Mick Harvey, their bands The Birthday Party and The Boys Next Door as well as their friends, including Gina Riley, Polly Borland and Anita Lane.

From the early 2000s, Milne's practice has focused on creating narratives using montage,{{Cite web|url=https://www.mga.org.au/index.php/collection/explore/index/artist/221/image/7|title=Peter Milne|website=www.mga.org.au}} collage{{Cite web|url=https://www.lensculture.com/books/5318-peter-milne-beautiful-lies-notes-towards-a-history-of-australia|title=Peter Milne Beautiful Lies: Notes Towards a History of Australia by Peter Milne|first=Peter|last=Milne|via=www.lensculture.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://art.base.co/event/4511-peter-milne-personal-hygiene|title=Peter Milne: Personal Hygiene on Art.Base.BASE|website=Art.Base}} and constructed 'film-stills' from movies that don't exist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/comedy-festival/melbourne-international-comedy-festival-comics-as-youve-never-seen-them/news-story/d8583df6ae5a9439452a9a3951345f18|title=Our top comics as you've never seen them|date=15 April 2015|website=www.heraldsun.com.au}}