Private Paton's Pictures: Behind the Lines with Kiwi Soldiers in North Africa 1941-1943 by Harold Paton

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Harold Paton’s evocative Second World War photographs record the hardship, camaraderie and daily rituals of the North African and Syrian Campaigns of 1941–1943. This is the book produced from an exhibition of photographs of Kiwis in the North Afr ica campaign, 1942-43, during the Second World War. It includes extra photographs and captions in the photographer’s own words. Paton’s amazing photographs show how war really was, not how Hollywood has since portrayed it - ‘long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror’. These photographs graphically show us the daily lives that our fathers and grandfathers endured, as nearly every New Zealand family had a loved one involved in this campaign, and many of course did not come back. They also capture the lighter side, when the soldiers found time to entertain themselves by organising team sports, boxing matches, making toys and trinkets for their loved ones back home and enjoying the sights. ...Show more

Yvonne Todd: Dead Starlets Assoc. by Yvonne Todd, Justin Clemens and Robert Leonard

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

There is a certain amorphorous post-colonial scent to Todd's work, which leaks out in her obsession with the pallor of white people, with Victoriana. Her attention to detail, and to the control of detail, exemplifies a kind of late puritan sensibility.

Richard Orjis: Park by Richard Orjis.

$30.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

PARK surveys the work of New Zealand artist Richard Orjis. His work transgresses boundaries between nature and artifice, ritual and the banal, and explores notions of identity, humanity and home. The visual and visceral cults created by Orjis are designed to engage and unsettle in equal measure, and thi s text is a perfect introduction to his work as well as a beautiful artifact in its own right. Text by David Eggleton and Harry McNaughton. ...Show more

Vintage Wellington by Charles Fearnley

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The Coromandel by Michael King

$25.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

The Coromandel brings together the talents of Robin Morrison, who until his untimely death in 1993 was New Zealand's most distinguished documentary photographer, and the insights of Michael King, one of the country's best-known writers and historians. The result of this collaboration is an arresting and moving evocation of the history, landscape and lifestyle of the Coromandel Peninsula. ...Show more

The Coromandel by Michael King

$45.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

The Coromandel brings together the talents of Robin Morrison, who until his untimely death in 1993 was New Zealand's most distinguished documentary photographer, and the insights of Michael King, one of the country's best-known writers and historians. The result of this collaboration is an arresting and moving evocation of the history, landscape and lifestyle of the Coromandel Peninsula. ...Show more

Auckland: City and Sea by Robin Morrison; Kevin Ireland

$65.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

A Guide to Modern Living by Harvey Benge

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand

In his quest for the bizarre and the absurd, Harvey Benge continues to scavenge the urban landscape. Lucky Box - A guide to Modern Living is his fifth book and as always Benge thrives on the everyday moments of ordinary life, as he searches for the ambiguities and tensions that lie behind modern urban l iving. This is a journey of contrast and conflicts - frequently humorous and often deeply disturbing. ...Show more

Anne Noble: States of Grace by Justin Paton (ed.), Anne Kennedy, and Lydia Wevers

$30.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good

This edition is out of print. Expressionist photography from around New Zealand. Acknowledged as a major figure in the evolution of photography in New Zealand, Anne Noble addresses a remarkable range of social, ethical and poetic issues, from landscape to religion, from the personal to the political. Pa tient, poised and intimate, hers are images that discover states of grace amongst the objects of ordinary life. First published 2001. ...Show more

All Gates Open by Laurence Aberhart

$85.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Into the Light : A History of New Zealand Photography by David Eggleton

$120.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

Into the Light is a serious, but readable history of photography in New Zealand. It provides a comprehensive survey of New Zealand's most significant photographers and is aimed at a general audience. Written as an essay-type narrative, it draws together many threads in a succinct and lively style and is themed around the work of New Zealand's leading photographers from the early 1850s, to the present day. The chronology is structured in relation to changes in technology, and international trends and movements, including: daguerreotypes, collotypes, photographer's studios, the photography of exploration, pictorialism, nationalism, photo-journalism, neo-realism, regionalism, feminism, and post-modernism. It is the first major New Zealand photographic history in recent times, building on the work done by previous New Zealand photographic historians including Hardwicke Knight, William Main and John Turner. It coincides with the recent upswing of interest in New Zealand photography and its elevated significance and place within visual arts and culture.The photographers featured nclude early colonial professionals such as the Burton Brothers, George Valentine, and William and Fred Tyree, along with those documenting New Zealand's burgeoning identity in the Twentieth Centurey, such as John Pascoe during World War II and the gritty, authentic photography of Les Cleveland. Current senior practioners, such as Marti Friedlander, Peter Peryer, Ans Westra, Anne Noble and Laurence Aberhart all are represented, along with more contemporary practitioners such as Fiona Pardington, Gavin Hipkins and Yvonne Todd. In all, over 110 photographers are highlighted over a 160 year history. The book is large format, heavily illustrated throughout and produced to the highest standard.Into the Light makes a serious contribution to the appreciation and understanding of New Zealand photography, and will attract a broad readership among those interested in the visual arts, as well as becoming the standard reference for students, and those with a specialist interest in photography. First published November 2006. ...Show more

Robin Morrison: At Home and Abroad by Robin Morrison

$55.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Compiled from images created over 15 years, this collection represents the essence of the work of New Zealand's most highly regarded photographer. At Home and Abroad brings together Robin Morrison's most significant work. It includes his work from England, Ireland, Australia, India and, of course, New Z ealand. 'Robin Morrison's unerring eye for the quirky, the poignant, the unfashionable as well as the lonely beauties of rural landscapes and the interplay of light and shade on the land make his At Home and Abroad a book to be savoured.'North and South Robin Morrison is generally acknowledged as New Zealand's pre eminent photographer. He compiled or contributed to more than 20 books in NZ, Australia and the UK, and attracted critical praise in all three countries. He won New Zealand Book Awards for The South Island from the Road in 1982, and for his major retrospective At Home and Abroad in 1992. ...Show more