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; […]
Ice Cream Dreams
Max Oettli F4: In the Interval by Susan Jowsey, Marcus Williams, Jesse Williams & Mercy Williams (Rim Books, 2014), 96 pp., $25; An Urban Quest for Chlorophyll by Jennifer Gilliam & Dieneke Jansen (Rim Books, 2013), 80 pp., $30 Seldom have I received a parcel with more disparate contents than that containing the two books […]
The Beaut, the Orsum, the Fugly and the Blah
David Eggleton Shigeru Ban: Cardboard Cathedral by Andrew Barrie, photographs by Bridgit Anderson and Stephen Goodenough (Auckland University Press, 2014), 252 pp., $59.99; Vertical Living: The architectural centre and the remaking of Wellington by Julia Gately and Paul Walker (Auckland University Press, 2014), 232 pp., $59.99; Bungalow: From heritage to contemporary edited by Nicole Stock, […]
Small Worlds
Jonathan W. Marshall Jim Allen: The skin of years, by Philip Dadson & Tony Green with Jim Allen; forewords by Wystan Curnow & Blair French (Clouds and Michael Lett, 2014), 340 pp., $49.95 Notwithstanding illustrious New Zealand contemporaries such as Colin McCahon, Wystan Curnow convincingly argues that ‘Jim Allen is … our first contemporary artist’ […]
Looking Directly at the Camera
Gary Blackman PhotoForum at 40: Counterculture, clusters and debate in New Zealand, by Nina Seja (Rim Books 2014, and PhotoForum issue 83, 2014) 300 pp., $65.00 PhotoForum at 40 is a major addition to the annals of photographic history in New Zealand. It’s a handsome volume of 300 pages of generous page size that comfortably […]
The Urban Archeologist
James Dignan Working Lives c. 1900: A photographic essay, by Erik Olssen (Otago University Press, 2014), 167 pp., $50 Dunedin has seen better times. Once the country’s economic powerhouse, it has been overtaken in size by the likes of Hamilton and Tauranga, and is facing the psychological precipice which may see its ‘main centre’ status […]
Euphoria
Gregory O’Brien Robert Ellis (with main essays by Hamish Keith, Elizabeth Hana and Ngarino Ellis, and further essays by Ian Sinclair, Tasha Haines and Stephen Higginson), (Ron Sang Publications, 2014), 312 pp., $135 Among the many memorable photographs of the painter Robert Ellis in this new, important monograph, one stands out. It is 1963 and […]
The Canvas that Ripples
Jodie Dalgleish Mervyn Williams: From Modernism to the digital age by Edward Hanfling, with essays by Leonard Bell and Michael Dunn (Ron Sang Publications, 2014), 336 pp., $135 Mervyn Williams: From Modernism to the digital age is a large and well-illustrated monograph that seeks to chronicle the life-long artistic journey of Mervyn Williams. It contains […]
Tent Pegs in the Ground
Robert McLean Horse with Hat by Marty Smith, with collages by Brendan O’Brien (Victoria University Press, 2014), 77 pp., $30; Tree Space by Maria McMillan (Victoria University Press, 2014), 80 pp., $25; Remnants by Leonard Lambert (Steele Roberts, 2013), 62 pp., $19.99 At the beginning of Marty Smith’s debut collection Horse with Hat, the reader is […]
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