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Title: |
A Different Light |
| Sub-title: |
First Photographs of Aotearoa |
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| Edited by: |
Catherine Hammond, Shaun Higgins Introduction by: Angela Wanhalla Contributions by: Paul Diamond, Anna Petersen, Natalie Marshall |
| ISBN10-13: |
1869409949 : 9781869409944 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pages: |
284 |
| Weight: |
1.600 Kg. |
| Published: |
Auckland University Press - April 2024 |
| List Price: |
39.99 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
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| 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 â portraits in a machineâ reveal MÄ ori and PÄ kehÄ to themselves and to each other? Were the first photographs â a good likenessâ 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 Zealandâ s first photographs reveal KÄ"ngi 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 â TÄ maki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, Alexander Turnbull Library and Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o HÄ kena â to coincide with a touring exhibition of some of the earliest known photographs of Aotearoa. MÄ u he kÄ mera! MÄ u he kÄ mera! MÄ tÄ tou he kÄ mera! |
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