Jodie Dalgleish The Long View: Auckland photographs 2014–2017 by Mary Macpherson with an essay by Gregory O’Brien (Mary Macpherson and PhotoForum Inc., 2018), 44 pp, $35 Designated as PhotoForum 89. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, 29 May to 22 July 2018 as […]
In Counterpoint to the Music of Time
Max Oettli Aberhart Starts Here by Lara Strongman with Laurence Aberhart (Christchurch Art Gallery, 2018), 136 pp., $39.99 This catalogue is based on the Christchurch Art Gallery show of Aberhart’s early work (1975 to 1983 with one picture from 1986), from when he was living in Lyttelton and later working as an instructor at the […]
A Dynamic Optimism
Peter Shand Gordon Walters: New vision edited by Lucy Hammonds, Laurence Simmons and Julia Waite (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki & Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2017), 244 pp., $79 The title of Gordon Walters: New vision presents its own wero. Building from Walters’ innovating position within New Zealand art, the title points to the […]
Yielding Up Riches
Andrew Paul Wood Undreamed Of … 50 years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship by Priscilla Pitts and Andrea Hotere (Otago University Press, 2017), 224 pp., $59.95 It’s tough being an artist in Aotearoa – it doesn’t exactly come with the flotilla of perks and acknowledgements one might find in countries less suspicious of culture. Even […]
Hammer and Sickle, Yeah!
Max Oettli Seen in China 1956 by Tom Hutchins, edited by John B. Turner (Turner Photo Books in collaboration with Photo Forum as Photoforum issue 86, 2016), 124 pp., $25; The Shops by Steve Braunias and Peter Black (Luncheon Sausage Press Books/Photo Forum, 2016), 62 pp., $40 What did I know about China in 1956? […]
Have I Got Time to Look at This?
Max Oettli A Beautiful Hesitation by Fiona Pardington, with Kriselle Baker and Aaron Lister and others (Victoria University Press, 2016), 264 pp., $70 Have I got time to look at this? Books of pictures always seem to have a time signature built into them, and from that point of view Fiona Pardington’s A Beautiful Hesitation is […]
Awa, Maunga, Iwi, Waka
David Eggleton Māori Art: History, architecture, landscape and theory by Rangīhiroa Panoho (Bateman, 2015), 352 pp., $89.99 Māori Art: History, architecture, landscape and theory is, as the book’s convoluted subtitle might suggest, a somewhat lumpy assemblage: an idiosyncratic if entertaining gathering of themes and examples lashed together raft-like in support of its aim, which is […]
Kinetic Experience
Andrew Paul Wood Zizz! The life and art of Len Lye, in His Own Words, by Len Lye with Roger Horrocks (Awa Press, 2015), 208 pp., $30 The Len Lye phenomenon has become almost cult-like in recent years, culminating in July 2015 with the launch of the mirror-finish, fingerprint-prone $11.5 million Len Lye Centre in […]
Clarity, the Sky Says
Jenny Powell Boundaries, People and Places of Central Otago, by Brian Turner (Penguin Random House NZ, 2015), 351 pp., $45 Travelling into Turner territory is invariably breath-taking and thought-provoking. This new collection of prose, poetry and Steve Calveley’s photography does not disappoint, but these qualities are merely the surface shimmer on the long reach of […]
Blood and Guts in Wartime
David Eggleton The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing, edited by Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (Penguin Random House, 2015), 602 pp., $65; Calls to Arms: New Zealand society and commitment to the Great War by Steven Loveridge (Victoria University Press, 2014), 336 pp., $40; How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World […]
Flows of Energy
Melinda Johnston The Dharma Punks by Ant Sang (Earth’s End Publishing, 2014) 424 pp., $39.99; Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen by Dylan Horrocks (Victoria University Press, 2014) 208 pp., $35 Collectively, the publication in late 2014 of Dylan Horrocks’ latest graphic novel Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen and the re-publication of Ant Sang’s Dharma […]
How to Take a Picture
David Eggleton View from the Road: Exploring New Zealand from State Highway 1, by Arno Gasteiger, with an essay by Kennedy Warne (Penguin, 2014), 208 pp., $65; Te Atatu Me: Photographs of an urban New Zealand village, by John B. Turner, with an essay by Grant Cole (PhotoForum and Turner PhotoBooks, 2015), 176 pp., $60; […]
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