Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists

Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists

Curated by Dr Leonard Bell

New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Shed 11, Wellington Waterfront

27 August - 08 November 2020

Marti Friedlander, Ralph Hotere, Dunedin, 1978. Copyright Gerrard and Marti Friedlander Charitable Trust

Marti Friedlander (1928-2016) is one of our most prominent and highly regarded photographers. Her work has been central to New Zealand’s social and cultural life.
This exhibition is full of novel and compelling images of both well-known and now ‘forgotten’ or little-known artists, writers, craftspeople, actors, who were prominent players in expanding and vitalising cultural fields in New Zealand in the 1960s, 1970s and later.