A Different Light: First Photographs from Aotearoa - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1869409949 ISBN 13 : 9781869409944

Editeur : Auckland University Press, 2024

Synopsis

In 1848, two decades after a French inventor mixed daylight with a cocktail of chemicals to fix the view outside his window onto a metal plate, photography arrived in Aotearoa. How did these ‘portraits in a machine’ reveal Māori and Pākehā to themselves and to each other? Were the first photographs ‘a good likeness’ or were they tricksters? What stories do they capture of the changing landscape of Aotearoa?

From horses laden with mammoth photographic plates in the 1870s to the arrival of the Kodak in the late 1880s, New Zealand’s first photographs reveal Kīngi and governors, geysers and slums, battles and parties. They freeze faces in formal studio portraits and stumble into the intimacy of backyards, gardens and homes.

A Different Light brings together the extraordinary and extensive photographic collections of three major research libraries – Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, Alexander Turnbull Library and Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena – to coincide with a touring exhibition of some of the earliest known photographs of Aotearoa.

Māu he kāmera! Māu he kāmera! Mā tātou he kāmera!

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Catherine Hammond is Hocken Librarian at the University of Otago Te Whare Wananga o Otakou. She manages the cultural collections at Hocken Library and the University Library's Special Collections. She was formerly head of documentary heritage at Tamaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum and research library manager at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. Shaun Higgins is curator pictorial at Tamaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. He has worked on exhibitions for two decades, most recently Robin Morrison: Road Trip (2023). He has an MA, BA and PGDip from the University of Auckland in anthropology, art history and museum studies, and further qualifications in photography and care and identification of photographs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Auckland University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1869409949
• ISBN 13: 9781869409944
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Éditeur: Hammond Catherine, Higgins Shaun
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