TY - BOOK AU - Moon,Paul TI - Ans Westra: a life in photography SN - 9781991016775 U1 - 770.92 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Auckland, New Zealand PB - Massey University Press KW - Westra, Ans. KW - Photographers KW - New Zealand KW - Biography KW - Netherlands KW - Women photographers N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -