Te Awa: Partington's photographs of Whanganui Maori by William H.T. Partington

$65.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good

The reproduction of this outstanding collection of 19th Century photographs of Maori by WHT Partington is an important event, in both historical and photographic terms. Most of these photographs have never been exhibited before. These photographs were mostly taken in the Wanganui area at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. A large number of them are studio portraits but William Partington also travelled up the Wanganui River 'the Rhine of New Zealand' and photographed people in their own environments. They have now been bought by the Whanganui Regional Museum and will be exhibited there. Through these photographs, we are taken back through time, we see some of the detail of their lives and we can imagine their reactions to the photographer. The photographs document a people in transition. As well as this historical significance, the photographs stand as works of art - displaying Partington's careful eye, fine sense of composition and technical excellence. Partington was an excellent photographer but he was an unknown in the art world until the discovery of this collection, held by some of his descendants. He was the son of early Auckland settlers whose windmill, Partington's Windmill, was a well-known landmark. When his Auckland studio burnt down, he moved to Wanganui and established a studio there. ...Show more

Andris, Where Are You? From Latvia to New Zealand: The Family Story of Andris Apse by Ron Crosby

$20.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Andris, Where Are You? tells the family story of renowned New Zealand photographer Andris Apse, who when middle aged, discovered that his father Voldemars, believed to be dead for 40 years, was still alive in Latvia. Told largely through insightful pre-war diary entries by Voldemars Apse, as well as cor respondence between Voldemars and his wife Kamilla, both before and during the war, this book describes the horrendous effects of war and the Soviet and German occupation on an ordinary rural Latvian family. For years after the war Kamilla and her baby Andris lived in West Germany in a refugee camp, but came to understand that Voldemars had died in the war, or in the Soviet gulag prison camps. Consequently, Kamilla and five-year-old Andris emigrated to New Zealand as refugees. Over time Andris became one of New Zealand’s most successful landscape photographers, and raised his own family. Following the breakdown of the Soviet Union, Kamilla and Andris miraculously discovered that Voldemars was still alive in Latvia. Andris arranged to take Kamilla, who was now in her seventies, back to Latvia. When they reunited in Riga, husband met wife, and son met father for the first time in over 40 years. This story of heart-rending separation and joyful rediscovery will touch a chord with all parents and everyone with a sense of history and the importance of family. Andris’s remarkable tale was first published as a large format photographic book, which was serialised by National Radio, and his life and photography has also featured in a 2010 TVNZ documentary ‘Through My Eyes’. ...Show more

Nineteenth Century New Zealand Photogeraphs. A Govett-Brewster Art Gallery travelling exhibition by John B. Turner (ed.)

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good

Smoke & Mirrors by Karen Inderbitzen-Waller and Delphine Avril Planqueel

$45.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Smoke & Mirrors traces a journey of closely examined nostalgia and a fascination with difficult beauty. Cutting a delicate path between the real and the imagined, interior and exterior, the light and the dark, the new and the faded, the work expresses a delicate, but potent girlishness spared from s entimentality by an ever-present grit. ...Show more

Framing the Native: Constructed Portraits of Indigenous Peoples

$35.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: near fine

Sport 30 Peter Black. Real Fiction by Gregory O'Brien (ed.)

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Bloom by Ron Van Dongen

$35.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good

Photographer Ron van Dongen, long celebrated for his stunning duotone floral photography, has created his first work in rich color. This gorgeous edition of detailed and dramatic images captures the sculptural essence of flowersexotic orchids and common daisies alike. Exhibited in galleries in the Unite d States, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Japan, van Dongen's work is often compared to Mapplethorpe and O'Keeffe for its exceptional beauty. ...Show more

Above the World: Earth Through a Drone's Eye by teNeues

$35.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good

Sometimes, all that is needed to change someone s mind is a change of perspective. Flying cameras, freed from the constraints of gravity, redefine how we perceive the world we live in and reveal previously unseen moments of beauty. Very rarely does a new technology level a playing field in an art form, allowing unknown talents to share headlines with established artists. Drones are one of these great equalizers. With this book, we are shining a spotlight on some of the world s best aerial photography. We examine not just the works of well-known aerial photographers, but also the many phenomenal images captured by non-professionals. The subjects of those showcased range from a volcanic eruption to the abstract patterns of fish farms as seen from above, and from never-before-seen views of Patagonia to powerful impressions of the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland. "Above the World" is an ode to the beauty of the aerial image as it can be seen and captured by anyone. Let yourself be inspired." ...Show more

Fabrik - Ein Bildepos der Technik Von Jak Tuggener by Martin Gasser; Jakob Tuggener

$65.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: near fine

Jakob Tuggener's Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is a milestone in the history of the photography book. Its 72 images, in the expressionist aesthetic of a silent movie, impart a skeptical view of technological progress: at the time the Swiss military industry was producing weapons for World War II. Tuggener, who was born in 1904, had an uncompromisingly critical view of the military-industrial complex that did not suit his era. His images of rural life and high-society parties had been easy to sell, but Fabrik found no publisher. And when the book did come out, it was not a commercial success. Copies were sold at a loss and some are believed to have been pulped. Now this seminal work, which has since become a sought-after classic, is being reissued with a contemporary afterword. In his lifetime, Tuggener's work appeared--at Robert Frank's suggestion--in Edward Steichen's Post-War European Photography and in The Museum of Modern Art's seminal exhibition, The Family of Man, in whose catalogue it remains in print. Tuggener's death in 1988 left an immense catalogue of his life's work, much of which has yet to be shown: more than 60 maquettes, thousands of photographs, drawings, watercolors, oil paintings and silent films. ...Show more

Ezra Pound in Italy - From the Pisan Cantos by Vittorugo Contino

$25.00 NZD

Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good

A Victorian Album - Julia Margaret Cameron and Her Circle by Graham Ovenden (ed.)

$35.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good

The Nude - Ideal and Reality: Painting and Sculpture from Neoclassicism to Today; and The Nude Ideal and Reality: Photography, from the Invention of Photography to Today by Peter Weiermair; Luca Beatrice; Alison Smith

$70.00 NZD

Category: Art | Reading Level: very good