New Zealand Photography Collected - Hardcover

McCredie, Athol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0994104146 ISBN 13: 9780994104144

Publisher: Te Papa Press, 2015

Synopsis

New Zealand Photography Collected illuminates the richness of New Zealand’s photographic tradition, from nineteenth-century portraits and dramatic landscapes to the latest contemporary art photography. The book showcases more than 400 arresting and memorable photographs from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, accompanied by richly informative descriptions. Featured photographers include James Bragge, Leslie Adkin, Burton Brothers, John Pascoe, Brian Brake, Frank Hofmann, Ans Westra, Eric Lee-Johnson, Marti Friedlander, Laurence Aberhart, Ann Shelton, Glenn Jowitt, Anne Noble, Yvonne Todd and many others. Author Athol McCredie offers a fresh and compelling narrative that foregrounds photography's wide-ranging uses across portraiture, landscape, science, documentary photography, and art, and contemplates photography’s wide-ranging uses and how it has been collected – both privately and publicly – through time. What emerges is not only an important new history of the photographic medium but also a surprising and powerful portrait of New Zealand.

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From the Back Cover:

From the sublime to the surreal, the familiar to the forgotten and the 1850s to the present -- see New Zealand photography like never before in this unique visual history. New Zealand Photography Collected illuminates the richness of New Zealand's photographic tradition, from nineteenth-century portraits and dramatic landscapes to the latest contemporary art photography. It showcases more than 400 arresting and memorable photographs from the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, by luminaries such as Brian Brake, Ans Westra, Laurence Aberhart, Anne Noble, Yvonne Todd and many others. Author and curator Athol McCredie's fresh and compelling narrative contemplates photography's wide-ranging uses and how it has been collected - both privately and publicly - through time.

About the Author:

Athol McCredie is a curator of photography at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, where he has worked since 2001. He has been involved with photography as researcher, curator, and photographer since the 1970s. He is the author of Brian Brake: Lens on the World and Fields of Golden Daffodils and the coauthor of Witness to Change.

About this edition

• Publisher: Te Papa Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0994104146
• ISBN 13: 9780994104144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368