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first photographs of Aotearoa
edited by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins
283 pages
illustrations
Summary: From horses laden with mammoth photographic plates in the 1870s to the arrival of the Kodak in the late 1880s, New Zealand's first photographs reveal Kīngi 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 photographic collections of three major research libraries - Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, Alexander Turnbull Library and Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena - to coincide with a touring exhibition of some of the earliest known photographs of Aotearoa. (Publisher)