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Self-portrait Marti Friedlander with Hugo Manson Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869407841 One day we will all be just a photograph, Marti Friedlander tells us in the closing pages of this entertaining and readable memoir. Coming as it does from…
Nga Tau ki Muri/Our Future Ans Westra Suite Publishing, $40.00, ISBN 9780473234881 This is a book of photographs, deliberately uncaptioned and accompanied by very few words. A brief introduction by Ans Westra sets out her political intent. Her desire is…
These Rough Notes Bill Manhire, Anne Noble, Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864738318 Selected Poems Bill Manhire Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864737625 “In the future,” Bill Manhire predicts, while introducing his sweeping 2005 anthology of…
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Autumn 2013,
Bill Manhire,
Hannah Griffin,
Issue 101,
Mark Houlahan,
Norman Meehan,
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Photography,
Poetry,
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Old New World: Photographs by Mary Macpherson Lopdell House Gallery, $50.00, ISBN 9780987659712 Published as PhotoForum issue 81, in collaboration with PhotoForum Inc, ISSN 01110411 In the interview with Gregory O’Brien that prefaces Old New World, a large-format book…
Early New Zealand Photography, Images and Essays Angela Wanhalla and Erika Wolf (eds) Otago University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781877578168 I must admit that I don’t usually go around thinking of photographs as “culturally conditioned visual communications systems” but, on…
I Loved You the Moment I Saw You Peter Black Victoria University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9780864736598 The first pages of Peter Black’s I Loved You the Moment I Saw You struck me with their colourful, contemporary design and fine…
Brian Brake: Lens on the World Athol McCredie (ed) Te Papa Press, $99.99, ISBN 9781877385643 This is a remarkable book, beautifully produced and meticulously researched to give a careful and fair portrait of the one landmark international photographer this…
Alan Miller: New Zealand Photographs Alan Miller Anglesea House, $70.00, ISBN 9780473157739 In the 21st century New Zealand photography has acquired quite a history, some of which is currently on display in our bookshops. One driver is the photographers…
Marti Friedlander Leonard Bell Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869404444 What makes Marti Friedlander’s work such compelling viewing? Her work, even she herself, has taken on an iconic presence in the comfortable confines of our islands. And the photographs she…
Peter Peryer Photographer Peter Peryer (photographs); Peter Simpson and Peter Peryer (essays) Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869494178 Room Room Ann Shelton (photographs); Martin Patrick (essay) City Gallery in association with McNamara Gallery, $7.00, ISBN 0958270465 Acerbic old Degas once…
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Auckland University Press,
City Gallery,
Issue 87,
Martin Patrick,
McNamara Gallery,
Peter Ireland,
Peter Peryer,
Peter Simpson,
Spring 2009
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Photography,
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