Rykenberg's Musicians
Rykenberg's Musicians
John Rykenberg
Silo 7, Wynyard Qtr, Auckland Central
Outdoors, 24 hrs / 7 days
6 - 26 May 2022
Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography
John Rykenberg, Russ le Roq (Russell Crowe), 1981 (Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1269-Y8706-09)
The Auckland Festival of Photography is delighted to present, from the Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, a selection of music-themed images from the John Rykenberg collection.
John Rykenberg (1927-2014) was a Dutch immigrant who started out taking photographs of patrons in Auckland clubs and restaurants in the late 1950s. Before long he’d opened a studio in the basement of a car wrecker’s in Ponsonby, eventually moving ‘Rykenberg Photography’ to more accessible premises in Albert Street. His business swiftly grew to include weddings, social and professional functions and, inevitably, nightlife and the music scene.
His negatives, comprising more than one million frames, were donated to Auckland Libraries in 2014.
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