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Behind the passionate eye, Peter Calder
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…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Hugo Manson, Issue 104, Marti Friedlander, Peter Calder, Summer 2013
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography
Janus’s other face, Alan Cocker
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…
Tagged with: Alan Cocker, Ans Westra, Issue 103, Spring 2013, Suite Publishing
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Moving the world along, Mark Houlahan
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…
Tagged with: Anne Noble, Autumn 2013, Bill Manhire, Hannah Griffin, Issue 101, Mark Houlahan, Norman Meehan, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Photography, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Photography, Poetry, Review
Stops, detours and explorations, Helen Watson White
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…
Tagged with: Helen Watson, Issue 99, Lopdell House Gallery, Mary Macpherson, Spring 2012
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Into the light, Paul Thompson
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…
Tagged with: Angela Wanhalla, Erika Wolf, Issue 98, Otago University Press, Paul Thompson, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
The difficult decisive moment, Tom Elliott
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…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Ian Wedde, Issue 97, Peter Black, Tom Elliott, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
A fair portrait, Max Oettli
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…
Tagged with: Athol McCredie, Autumn 2011, Brian Brake, Issue 93, Max Oettli, Te Papa Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Monumental and graphic, Mary Macpherson
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…
Tagged with: Alan Miller, Anglesea House, Autumn 2011, Issue 93, Mary Macpherson
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Beneath what we see, Max Oettli
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…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 90, Leonard Bell, Marti Friedlander, Max Oettli, Winter 2010
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
What, where, here, not here, Peter Ireland
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…
Tagged with: Ann Shelton, Auckland University Press, City Gallery, Issue 87, Martin Patrick, McNamara Gallery, Peter Ireland, Peter Peryer, Peter Simpson, Spring 2009
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review