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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480469203321

Autore

Bell Leonard <1945->

Titolo

Marti Friedlander / / Leonard Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-86940-792-X

1-77558-590-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

770.92

Soggetti

Photographers - New Zealand

Photography - New Zealand

Electronic books.

New Zealand Pictorial works

New Zealand Social life and customs Pictorial works

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Kapka Kassabova; 1. Looking Closely; 2. Inside Outside, Public Private; 3. First New Zealanders; 4. Investigating New Zealand; 5. On the Street, at the Beach; 6. Displacement, Migration, Travel; 7. 'A Competent Mistress of Life'; Chronology; Exhibitions; Notes; Acknowledgements; List of Plates; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From Maori moko to Dame Whina Cooper and the 1975 Maori land march, from Rita Angus to Norman Kirk, from Israel to Fiji, Marti Friedlander's photographs have captured the transformation of our lives over the last 50 years. While recording these places, events, and personalities of recent history, Friedlander has brought to her subjects a distinctive eye.  Arriving in New Zealand as a Jewish immigrant from England in 1958, Marti Friedlander has always viewed life through the lens of an outsider. Whether photographing artists and writers or protests and street scenes, her photographs have d