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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…
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…
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…
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Issue 84,
Mary Macpherson,
Rick Alexander,
Summer 2008,
Victoria University Press
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Photography,
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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…
Simple I don’t like this loyalty card my name and number stamped on orange flowers offers for forks and gloves and trowels and guilt about not knowing how to live a life with offers. I scowl and stare at…
Millionaire’s Shortbread Mary-Jane Duffy, Mary Cresswell, Mary Macpherson, Kerry Hines University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 187727643X Len & other poems Jo Thorpe Steele Roberts, $$19.95, ISBN 187722894X Soundings Cilla McQueen University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877276383 I once…
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Issue 62,
Jo Thorpe,
John Allison,
Kerry Hines,
Mary Cresswell,
Mary Macpherson,
Mary-Jane Duffy,
Otago University Press,
Steele Roberts,
Winter 2003
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Poetry,
Review
Chiaroscuro (for Terry) It’s clear how quickly darkness swims up the gums – there’s light and shadow, then the silver trunks and tossed heads are gone. Bats call in darkness. I’ve seen this in Auckland too – a city…
Earth Colours: Selected Poems L E Scott HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0473068036 Declamatory and full of urgent desire to thrust the reader into different realities, L E Scott’s poems stride across big subjects. Earth Colours reflects 30 years of Scott’s poems…
Eric Lee-Johnson. Artist with a Camera John B Turner PhotoForum Inc, $61.95, ISBN 0 9597818 5 4 Since photography began over 150 years ago, photography, painting and other art media have danced around and with each other. Today, it can…
Nothing to Declare Harry Ricketts HeadworX Publishers, $19.95 ISBN 0 47305141 9 “Nothing to declare”, this title murmurs in the polite way that shows we’ve obeyed Customs rules and now just want to get on with our lives. But like…