Closing Time: photographs from the Hotel Kiwi 1967 – 1975
Closing Time: photographs from the Hotel Kiwi 1967 – 1975
Gary Baigent, John Fields and Max Oettli
Featuring texts by Elizabeth Eastmond, Ted Spring and the photographers
Published by Rim Books, March 2022
Soft-cover, saddle stitched, 56 pages (indigo uncoated 100gsm)
285x 210 mm, Limited edition of 150
ISBN 978-0-9951184-9-2
Hotel Kiwi was situated at the corner of Wellesley and Symonds Streets in Auckland – close to the University and the Elam School of Fine Arts. Described in The Pub-Goer’s Guidebook (1966) as “Built almost entirely of formica and rubberised floor tiles, with the whole place giving out a general lavatorial atmosphere, it surely represents all that a pub should not be . . . The only feature of the place that is at all remarkable – and the only reason for giving it a ½ an award are the barmen. They are possibly the best we encountered anywhere.”
This zine-style photobook feature the photographs made at the bars of Hotel Kiwi from the archives of three photographers, Gary Baigent, John Fields and Max Oettli, who have all in their own way, contributed to the development of early contemporary art photography in New Zealand.
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