Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland Photography
Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland Photography
by Chris Corson-Scott and Edward Hanfling with a foreword by Ron Brownson.
Featuring photographs by Mark Adams, Edith Amituanai, Fiona Amundsen, Harvey Benge, Bruce Connew, Chris Corson-Scott, Ngahuia Harrison, Derek Henderson, Ian Macdonald, Haruhiko Sameshima, Geoffrey H. Short, and Talia Smith.
Published by PhotoForum, 2013 to accompany the exhibition Recent Auckland Photography at Northart, 19 May - 12 June 2013.
ISBN 978-0-9597818-6-1
270 x 295mm, 176 pages, with over 100 full colour reproductions, Hardback.
Showcasing a selection of significant photographs from twelve artists with various connections to the Auckland region.
“In their Introduction, the editors suggest that their selected artists have ‘varying degrees of commitment to notions of “the real”. Ian Macdonald is one who flouts attempts to nail down the real, preferring artifice. He collages digital photographs to create rainforest facades. Here, the New Zealand landscape is presented as an ecological niche, pristine and primal, and through the lush foliage the primeval light beckons. He makes images that are green altars, monumental and hopeful.
Geoffrey H. Short is the anarchist of the bunch, a singular poet, exploding expectations with exhilarating photographs of controlled explosions at Bethells Beach Te Henga. These spectacular bomb-bursts, as the essay on him tells us, are a metaphor for the act of photography itself.”
Review by David Eggleton
Art New Zealand
147/Spring 2013 issue
(pgs 93-95)
Other reviews:
Georgina McWhirter for Landfall Online
Zara Sigglekow for EyeContact (exhibition)
James Gilberd for Photospace
Adrian Hatwell for D-Photo