A Different Light
First Photographs of Aotearoa
$52.00
- Hardcover
284 pages
- Release Date
11 April 2024
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869409944 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1869409949 |
| Author: | Catherine Hammond, Shaun Higgins, Angela Wanhalla, Paul Diamond, Anna Petersen, Natalie Marshall |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 284 |
| Release Date: | 11 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.40kg |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 190mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa |
About The Author
Catherine Hammond
Catherine Hammond is Hocken Librarian at the University of Otago Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou. She manages the cultural collections at Hocken Library and the University Library’s Special Collections. She was formerly head of documentary heritage at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum and research library manager at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Shaun Higgins is curator pictorial at Tāmaki 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.
Alongside the editors, A Different Light includes essays by Angela Wanhalla (Kāi Tahu), professor of History at the University of Otago; Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi), curator, Māori at the Alexander Turnbull Library; Anna Petersen, curator, Photographs at Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena; and Natalie Marshall, formerly curator, Photographs at Alexander Turnbull Library.
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