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Shooting the south, Stella Ramage
White Silence: Grahame Sydney’s Antarctica Grahame Sydney Viking, $115.00, ISBN 9780670072538 How does the sustained gaze of the landscape painter, obsessively re-imagining the sun-scorched expanses of Central Otago in a million meticulous brushstrokes, adjust to the mechanical snap of a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Grahame Sydney, Issue 85, Stella Ramage, Viking
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Hinterlands, Mary Macpherson
Fiat Lux: 51 Photographs Andrew Ross Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864735737 Hinterland: Rick Alexander’s New Zealand Photographs Rick Alexander First Edition, $75.00, ISBN 9780475123703 A Short History of Photography Harvey Benge with Gerry Badger Godwit, $44.99, ISBN 9781869621445 Even…
Tagged with: Andrew Ross, First Edition, Gerry Badger, Godwit, Harvey Benge, Issue 84, Mary Macpherson, Rick Alexander, Summer 2008, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
The rain on her face, John B Turner
Monsoon Brian Brake David Bateman, $59.99, ISBN 13978186953608 For those familiar with Brian Brake’s “Monsoon” essay from Life and other magazines in the early 1960s, or those who more recently enjoyed the large-print exhibition at the Museum of New Zealand…
Tagged with: Brian Brake, David Bateman, Issue 82, John B Turner, Winter 2008
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Slow exposure, Alan Knowles
Into the Light: A History of New Zealand Photography David Eggleton Craig Potton Publishing, $59.99, ISBN 1877333549 A history of New Zealand through photography: at long last the poor cousin of art and literature has crawled out from the black…
Tagged with: Alan Knowles, Craig Potton Publishing, David Eggleton, Issue 80, Summer 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Then and now, Peter Ireland
Aberhart Gregory O’Brien and Justin Paton (eds) Victoria University Press, $125.00, ISBN 9780864735560 It’s given to few artists – in their lifetimes, at least – to be known simply by their surname. The great 20th century instance was Picasso, a…
Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 80, Justin Paton, Peter Ireland, Summer 2007, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Catching it on the run, Don Aimer
Lake of Coal: The Disappearance of a Mining Township David Cook Craig Potton Publishing and Ramp Press, $49.99, ISBN 1877333522 Once upon a time, under the fluffy Waikato clouds out west of the unlovely Huntly, was a place called Rotowaro…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, David Cook, Don Aimer, Issue 79, Ramp Press, Spring 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
An eye on Cambodia, Margot Schwass
A Certain Grace Anthony Maturin Anthony Maturin, $70.00, ISBN 109995082705, Instead of teaching in a dirt-floored classroom or hacking through the jungle, today’s VSA volunteer is just as likely to be an office-bound small-business advisor or a human resources trainer…
Tagged with: Anthony Maturin, Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Margot Schwass
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Heavy light industry, Paul Thompson
Domestic Architecture (1974-2005) Laurence Aberhart McNamara Gallery, $49.95, ISBN 0958243085 Light Wine Things Bill Culbert Dunedin Public Art Gallery, $29.95, ISBN 0908910444 Figure in the New Zealand Landscape Victoria Ginn OTS Publications, $39.95, ISBN 04760160X The Terrible Boredom of Paradise…
Tagged with: Bill Culbert, Derek Henderson, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Issue 74, Janet Bayley, John Pascoe, Lara Strongman, Laurence Aberhart, Mahara Gallery, McNamara Gallery, Mountain View Publishing, OTS Publications, Pacific Press, Paul Thompson, Victoria Ginn, Winter 2006
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
What meets the eye, Ian Robertson
My Place ed Glenn Busch, Bruce Connew with Uiga Bashford, Maria Buhrkuhl, Hanne Johnsen, Dean Kozanic, Tim Veling Canterbury University Press, $29.95, ISBN 187725729X Assume Nothing Rebecca Swan Boy Tiger Press, $69.95, ISBN 0476004934 My Place is part of an…
Tagged with: Boy Tiger Press, Bruce Connew, Canterbury University Press, Dean Kozanic, Glenn Busch, Hanne Johnsen, Ian Robertson, Issue 71, Maria Buhrkuhl, Rebecca Swan, Spring 2005, Tim Veling, Uiga Bashford
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Photography, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Photography, Review, Sociology
Evidence of the strange and new, Mary Macpherson
George D Valentine: A 19th Century Photographer in New Zealand Ken Hall Craig Potton Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1877333123 Travel to new places, whether as regular tourist or long-term visitor, carries with it a powerful urge to record and share the…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, George D Valentine, Issue 67, Ken Hall, Mary Macpherson, Spring 2004
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
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