TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pardington,Fiona
AU  - Baker,Kriselle
AU  - Rankin,Elizabeth
ED  - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
ED  - Two Rooms (Gallery)
ED  - Musée de l'homme (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle).
TI  - The pressure of sunlight falling: Fiona Pardington ; edited by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin
SN  - 9781877578090
U1  - 731.74 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Dunedin, N.Z.
PB  - Otago University Press
KW  - Pardington, Fiona,
KW  - Dumoutier, Pierre-Marie.
KW  - Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César,
KW  - Busts
KW  - Portrait photography
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Phrenology
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Photography
KW  - Plaster casts
N1  - 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)
N2  - " 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
ER  -