Our Land in Colour

Brendan Graham

ISBN 10: 1775541924 / ISBN 13: 9781775541929

About this Item

Our Land in Colour
By Jock Phillips, Brendan Graham.

Publisher:
HarperCollins NZ, 2023.

Near new hardback with jacket, a little edge-wear, no inscriptions.
Jacket has light shelf/edge-wear, creasing.

A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM
Our Land in Colour celebrates the rich story of Aotearoa through the restoration of images never before seen in colour. Two hundred images have been meticulously colourised, opening a window back in time with remarkable detail.

Aotearoa New Zealand from 1860 to 1960 was a world of black and white. It was a time when communities were isolated, made their lives from the land and lived an identity forged by the outdoors. Our Land in Colour is the way New Zealanders experienced life for a century before colour photography became prevalent, before large-scale urbanisation, and before the arrival of television and jet-airliners changed the nation forever.

From how the people adapted to the environment and the way they had to feed, clothe, house and transport themselves across an at times inhospitable land, to how they banded together with a spirit that would become famously Kiwi - each image in this 400-page book is a reminder of who we were and where we've come from.

ALL THE PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Land in Colour
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1775541924
• ISBN 13: 9781775541929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 20W x 25.3H x 3.4D centimeters 20 centimeters width by 25.3 centimeters height by 3.4 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM
Our Land in Colour celebrates the rich story of Aotearoa through the restoration of images never before seen in colour. Two hundred images have been meticulously colourised, opening a window back in time with remarkable detail. Aotearoa New Zealand from 1860 to 1960 was a world of black and white. It was a time when communities were isolated, made their lives from the land and lived an identity forged by the outdoors. Our Land in Colour is the way New Zealanders experienced life for a century before colour photography became prevalent, before large-scale urbanisation, and before the arrival of television and jet-airliners changed the nation forever. From how the people adapted to the environment and the way they had to feed, clothe, house and transport themselves across an at times inhospitable land, to how they banded together with a spirit that would become famously Kiwi - each image in this 400-page book is a reminder of who we were and where we've come from.