A different light : first photographs of Aotearoa / edited by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins.
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Auckland, New Zealand :
Auckland University Press,
2024.
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| Summary: | "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"--Publisher information. |
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| Physical Description: | 283 pages : illustrations, photographs, plates ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781869409944 1869409949 |