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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
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
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
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
Poem – Mary Macpherson
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…
Taking poetry for a walk, John Allison
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…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, Issue 62, Jo Thorpe, John Allison, Kerry Hines, Mary Cresswell, Mary Macpherson, Mary-Jane Duffy, Otago University Press, Steele Roberts, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Mary Macpherson
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…
More epic than lyric, Mary Macpherson
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…
Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, HeadworX, Issue 49, L E Scott, Mary Macpherson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Photo-sensitive, Mary Macpherson
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…
Tagged with: Eric Lee-Johnson, Issue 40, John B Turner, Mary Macpherson, PhotoForum Inc
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Getting the accent right, Mary Macpherson
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…
Tagged with: C K Stead, Harry Ricketts, HeadworX Publishers, Issue 36, Mary Macpherson
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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