Publication Details Soft cover with French flaps, dimensions: 245 x 245 mm, pages: 144, ISBN: 978-1-877375-56-9
Author and/or Editor name/s Ken Hall with Haruhiko Sameshima
Author and/or Editor bio/s Ken Hall is a curator at Christchurch Art Gallery Throughout his career he has continued to increase the visibility of early New Zealand photography in the Gallery’s exhibitions. Independently, he is working on a history of James Valentine & Sons, of Dundee, Scotland. Haruhiko Sameshima is a contemporary artist and photographer with particular interest in the process and propensity of photography to construct a sense of history of a place. He is also a publisher with Rim Books, and a writer and editor.
Year of publication 2019
Publisher Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Abstract In uncovering the remarkable, largely unseen work of early New Zealand photographers, Hidden Light: Early Canterbury and West Coast Photography is an exploration of an often overlooked aspect of our artistic past. This publication highlights the sometimes unsettling stories of photographers at work in nineteenth-century Te Waipounamu. Spectacular landscapes by skilled amateurs and professionals join powerful images of tangata whenua, settlers and mining scenes. The stories and work of several little-known pioneering women photographers are also given new attention.
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