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Laurence Aberhart : recent Taranaki photographs /

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Plymouth, N.Z. : Govett Brewster Art Gallery, 2012.Description: 69 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780908848539 (pbk.) :
Other title:
  • Recent Taranaki photographs
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NZ&P TR 647 ABE
Contents:
Foreword / Rhana Devenport and Paul Brobbel Exhibition images / Laurence Aberhart Installation images / Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Like skeletons betwixt: the melancholy and the surreal in the photography of Laurence Aberhart / Paul Brobbel A land transformed: Taranaki society and Aberhart's landscapes / Ron Lambert Unspecial effects: Laurence Aberhart's Taranaki / Peter Ireland Laurence Aberhart in conversation with Rhana Devenport / Laurence Aberhart and Rhana Devenport
Summary: Among the many national and international subjects seen in Aberhart's work, Taranaki has been a frequent focus of his photography. Sometimes described as solemn, these black and white images of churches, Masonic lodges, whare, monuments and memorials are records of places, lives and activities. Produced from large format negatives and a Korona view camera, these photographs are an exercise in memory and time.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific NZ & Pacific NZ&P TR 647 ABE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0012003

Published on th occassion of "Laurence Aberhart : recent Taranaki photographs", Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, N.Z., 3 March, 2012 - 17 June, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Rhana Devenport and Paul Brobbel Exhibition images / Laurence Aberhart Installation images / Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Like skeletons betwixt: the melancholy and the surreal in the photography of Laurence Aberhart / Paul Brobbel A land transformed: Taranaki society and Aberhart's landscapes / Ron Lambert Unspecial effects: Laurence Aberhart's Taranaki / Peter Ireland Laurence Aberhart in conversation with Rhana Devenport / Laurence Aberhart and Rhana Devenport

Among the many national and international subjects seen in Aberhart's work, Taranaki has been a frequent focus of his photography. Sometimes described as solemn, these black and white images of churches, Masonic lodges, whare, monuments and memorials are records of places, lives and activities. Produced from large format negatives and a Korona view camera, these photographs are an exercise in memory and time.

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