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Ans Westra : a life in photography / Paul Moon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Massey University Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 326 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781991016775
  • 1991016778
Other title:
  • Life in photography
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 770.92 23
Contents:
Arrival -- Origins -- The family of man -- Te ao hou: the new world -- The friendly islands -- Whitewash? -- Good keen men -- The country I live in -- Close to home -- The thick of it -- Retrospection -- Broken ends -- Departure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Summary: In a career that spanned six decades, the Dutch-Kiwi photographer Ans Westra (1936-2023) made it her life's work to capture the growth of a nation through hundreds of thousands of images. Her photographic catalogue is now widely thought of as a photo album of Aotearoa New Zealand. This richly illustrated biography interrogates her remarkable - and at times controversial - practice, and a life that always pout photography first."--back cover.
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Book South Campus City Campus Main Collection 770.92 WES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Issued 21/10/2024 A562348B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arrival -- Origins -- The family of man -- Te ao hou: the new world -- The friendly islands -- Whitewash? -- Good keen men -- The country I live in -- Close to home -- The thick of it -- Retrospection -- Broken ends -- Departure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

In a career that spanned six decades, the Dutch-Kiwi photographer Ans Westra (1936-2023) made it her life's work to capture the growth of a nation through hundreds of thousands of images. Her photographic catalogue is now widely thought of as a photo album of Aotearoa New Zealand. This richly illustrated biography interrogates her remarkable - and at times controversial - practice, and a life that always pout photography first."--back cover.

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