The pressure of sunlight falling / Fiona Pardington ; edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin.
Pardington, Fiona, 1961-
The pressure of sunlight falling / Fiona Pardington ; edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin. - 160 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, ports ; 35 cm.
Published in association with the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Two Rooms Gallery ; and coincides with the opening of a major travelling exhibition. Includes essays by leading scholars in Pacific history, art and photography, on subjects as diverse as phrenology and cast-making, the voyage, and the identity of Maori casts.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-157).
" An ambitious journey of the nineteenth century was the third voyage of the French explorer Dumont d'Urville, from 1837-1840. It was just before the invention of photography, when phrenology, the study of people's skulls, was the latest thing. D'Urville chose to take on the voyage an eminent phrenologist, Pierre-Marie Dumoutier, to preserve likenesses of people by making life casts. Fiona Pardington first learned of the life casts in 2007, which initiated a four-year project. It took her from Auckland to Musée de l'Homme in Paris, as she researched and photographed some of more than fifty cast of Māori, Pacific and European heads, including casts of her Ngāi Tahu ancestors"--Cover.
In English, with some Māori.
9781877578090
Pardington, Fiona, 1961-
Dumoutier, Pierre-Marie.
Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César, 1790-1842.
Busts
Portrait photography--New Zealand--20th century.
Phrenology--History--France--19th century.
Photography--New Zealand--20th century.
Plaster casts.
731.74
The pressure of sunlight falling / Fiona Pardington ; edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin. - 160 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, ports ; 35 cm.
Published in association with the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Two Rooms Gallery ; and coincides with the opening of a major travelling exhibition. Includes essays by leading scholars in Pacific history, art and photography, on subjects as diverse as phrenology and cast-making, the voyage, and the identity of Maori casts.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-157).
" An ambitious journey of the nineteenth century was the third voyage of the French explorer Dumont d'Urville, from 1837-1840. It was just before the invention of photography, when phrenology, the study of people's skulls, was the latest thing. D'Urville chose to take on the voyage an eminent phrenologist, Pierre-Marie Dumoutier, to preserve likenesses of people by making life casts. Fiona Pardington first learned of the life casts in 2007, which initiated a four-year project. It took her from Auckland to Musée de l'Homme in Paris, as she researched and photographed some of more than fifty cast of Māori, Pacific and European heads, including casts of her Ngāi Tahu ancestors"--Cover.
In English, with some Māori.
9781877578090
Pardington, Fiona, 1961-
Dumoutier, Pierre-Marie.
Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César, 1790-1842.
Busts
Portrait photography--New Zealand--20th century.
Phrenology--History--France--19th century.
Photography--New Zealand--20th century.
Plaster casts.
731.74