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The Landfall Tauraka Review

The Landfall Tauraka Review: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review

Matrix of Shape-Shifting

1 February 2023 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori art edited by Nigel Borell

Filed Under: art and photography, maori and pacific

‘Disobedience and Bravery’: The Power of Female Image-Making

1 December 2022 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on Gaylene’s Take: Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston; droplet by Sheryl Campbell

Filed Under: art and photography, memoir

A Principled Resistance

1 October 2022 Leave a Comment

Erik Kennedy on The Other Way by David Trubridge

Filed Under: art and photography, essays

Stone House & Straw Houses  

1 September 2022 Leave a Comment

Max Oettli on Ravenscar House: A Biography by Sally Blundell (Canterbury University Press, 2022) and Road People of Aotearoa: House truck journeys 1978–1984 by Paul Gilbert (Rim Books, 2021)

Filed Under: architecture, art and photography, arts and culture, biography, history

To Re-remember and Re-learn

1 May 2022 Leave a Comment

Rachel Smith on The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw; Wai Pasifika: Indigenous ways in a changing climate by David Young.

Filed Under: art and photography, environment, memoir, natural history, social sciences

Art and the Environment in Photobooks

1 October 2021 Leave a Comment

Mary Macpherson on The Near Future by Hannah Watkinson; Conversātiō – in the company of bees by Anne Noble

Filed Under: art and photography

Paradoxes, Mysteries and Obsessions

1 September 2021 Leave a Comment

David Eggleton on Ralph Hotere by Vincent O’Sullivan

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography

Dick’s Pics

1 March 2021 Leave a Comment

Andrew Paul Wood on Me, According to the History of Art by Dick Frizzell

Filed Under: art and photography, memoir

He Whakarite Ataahua/A Beautiful Arrangement

1 March 2021 Leave a Comment

Gina Cole on Ko Aotearoa Tātou, eds Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris, James Norcliffe and David Eggleton

Filed Under: art and photography, fiction, poetry, reviews and essays, short stories

The Politics of (In)Visibilities

1 December 2020 Leave a Comment

Robyn Maree Pickens on Sapphic Fragments: Imogen Taylor with essays by M. Mitchell-Anyon and J. Drayton and Llew Summers by John Newton

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, gender identity

‘All art comes from the depths of one’s feelings’

1 July 2020 Leave a Comment

Michael Dunn on Louise Henderson, ed Felicity Milburn et al

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography

Solitary Grandeur

6 November 2019 Leave a Comment

Martin Edmond on McCahon Country by Justin Paton

Filed Under: art and photography, arts and culture, biography

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