Early New Zealand photography : images and essays / edited by Angela Wanhalla and Erika Wolf. - 208 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-204) and index.

Introduction: photography, materiality and history / Angela Wanhalla and Erika Wolf -- Family photo or national treasure? Another look at the Barrett sisters' daguerreotype ; Text and image in Alfred Burton's photograph of the scene of the 'Hursthouse Outrage' at Te Kumi (1885) / Christine Whybrew -- Is this a Polack dageurreotype? / Keith Giles -- Persistent images: Māori photographs in English museum collections / Jocelyne Dudding -- Daniel Louis Mundy and the public works: photography and the West Coast Road / Wayne Barrar -- Foy Brothers' portrait of Ana Reupene Whetuki and child / Ken Hall -- Mission, reservation and recognition in the work of W.A. Collis / Simon Ryan -- At the borders of colonial masculinity: Robert Gant's photographs of men together / Chris Brickell -- William Williams and 'The Old Shebang' / Kerry Hines -- Photography and the ethnological macabre / Roger Blackley -- Making tracks: photography and trade in the nineteenth century / Rebecca Rice -- The Eiffel towers in Dunedin: stereo photography and modernity at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890 / Erika Wolf -- The asylum lens: photographs in the Seacliff Asylum case files / Barbara Brookes -- 'Treasure up the records of the fathers': photographing Otago's early settlers / Jill Haley -- Realising a photograph: Queen Victoria unveiled / Gary Blackman -- The meaning of 'colour': photography and portraiture, 1889-1904 / Angela Wanhalla -- Pictures of Panyu: images of China from the Canton Villages Mission / Brian Moloughney -- From glass plate to album: New Hebrides mission photographs in the album of Reverend William Veitch Milne / Antje Lübcke -- The best of intentions: imaging and imagining Te Mata Road / Simon Dench -- 'Water babies in Maoriland': photomontage in the illustrated press / Cathy Tuato'o Ross -- New Zealand's thermal region and the photographic book / Anne Maxwell -- New Zealanders in action: snapshots of combat / Sandy Callister -- Vernacular to valuable: the changing function of ambrotypes through New Zealand's photographic history -- Towards a single visual history of New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific / Max Quanchi.

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