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Bold Centuries
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NZ$ 60.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Haru Sameshima
DoP - 2009, NZ
A photographic history album
195pp
softcover
"Bold Centuries continues Sameshima's exploration of the concept that is New Zealand. The works flow from the natural environment to the urban environment and seem to be questioning not just how New Zealand has been represented in the past but how we are currently and how we will continue to be. Unsurprisingly there is an emphasis on the impact of foreign influence, historically from the British, but more recently from the US - photos of recent Central Otago developments could almost be Colorado or Montana. Years ago a local photographer told me that all photographers are collectors - of their own images if nothing else. Sameshima, it seems, is a collector of representations of this country, whether photographed by himself or found objects (other's photos, cigarette cards, postcards, etc.). The eight texts discuss specific elements of this collection without explicitly ...
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All Dogs Shot : The Photography of Roger Donaldson
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson is famous for his movies, which include
Sleeping Dogs
,
Smash Palace
,
Cadillac Man
and
The World's Fastest Indian
. But before he became a director, he was already a talented photographer, and he has retained his interest in the field. This book contains a selection of his work from 1963 to the present in a beautiful book with high production values.
There is a touring exhibition of his work currently making its way around New Zealand galleries and this book is a companion volume and an extension of that exhibition.
The photographs come from New Zealand, Cuba, Los Angeles, New York and many others places. They include landscapes, political photographs, humorous shots and social commentary. Every photograph is a stunner.
Roger has written brief notes about each image giving some background on where and why they were taken.
There is a foreword by Hamish Keith.
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Selected Architecture : Christchurch - A Guide
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Gavin Willis
Small format guide to over 120 Christchurch buildings. Colour photographs.
First published 2005.
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'Thrill Me Every Day' - The Celia Dunlop Collection
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NZ$ 99.00 each
Hardback
Author:
The Celia Dunlop Trust
236 pages of colour plates Hardcover
A celebration of both people and art, this book is a record of the Celia Dunlop Collection. Celia Dunlop was a collector driven by her intense passion for art, surrounding herself with works which resonated with her sense of identity as a New Zealander.During her lifetime Celia collected over 250 art works by 121 artists, with most of the works happily living floor to ceiling, wall to wall, in her Wellington villa. A contextual essay by author & biographer Jill Trevelyan introduces this stunning book. Artists featured include Gordon Walters, Peter Robinson, Robyn Kahukiwa, Lynn Kelly and many more painters, jewellers and ceramists. 10% of proceeds go to the Mary Potter Hospice.
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A Pocketful of Beach Houses
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Hardback
Author:
eds.
This latest addition to
Images' Pocketful Series
offers more than 50 examples of the best residential beach architecture in Australia and New Zealand today. Superb architect-designed homes, which in many cases have been adapted to harsh beachside environments, are explained and illustrated with beautiful photography, plans and descriptive text. A visual feast of stunning ocean views, dunescapes and impeccable architectural design for beachside living,
A Pocketful of Beach Houses
is a must-have for any beach-lover and includes stunning projects from top Australian and New Zealand architects, such as Molnar Freeman Architects, Stephen Jolson and McBride Charles Ryan.
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Architecture Uncooked : An architect looks around New Zealand holiday houses
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NZ$ 55.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Pip Cheshire & Patrick Reynolds
So much has been written about that national treasure, the traditional Kiwi bach. Here's a book that approaches the subject in a fresh and unique way. Pip Cheshire, a former partner in Jasmax and now an architect with his own highly regarded practice, has designed some of New Zealand's most significant public and private buildings. In this book he partners with leading architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds to visit seven holiday houses that represent bach living and bach architecture. The dwellings range from an isolated mountain bach in the South Island to a new small house in Northland. Each house and its hinterland is lovingly and expertly photographed by Patrick Reynolds so the reader feels as though they are really standing there on site. Lyrical and lovely, the text still gets to grips with the issues facing baches in this era of soaring coastal property prices, building consents and look-at-me aspiration.
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Big Picture : the History of New Zealand Art from 1642
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NZ$ 50.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Hamish Keith
1642? Yes, we have an art history that dates back that far, to the engravings made during Tasman's voyage that depict the first contact between European and Maori. In this tautly, provocatively and passionately argued history, leading art commentator Hamish Keith takes readers on a fascinating and illuminating exploration of our culture, of how artists and their works have provided the language that describes a fascinating and sometimes exhilarating account of peoples creating a new culture out of the old cultures they brought here with them, and then using that new culture to adapt and respond to new waves of people arriving with new old things. With over 300 illustrations, this remarkable survey of New Zealand's art and culture is indispensable to our understanding of who we are. "Do adjust your sets. In The Big Picture, Hamish Keith, with his brisk, personal text will force you to refocus when you think about our cultural ...
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Canterbury Country Houses III
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Vicky Heward (drawings by Rodney Wells)
This book is a beautifully illustrated account of 70 country houses located in Canterbury.
Fine pen and ink drawings by renowned artist Rodney Wells are complemented by Vicky Heward's text which is a wonderful insight into the people who have done much to shape the culture of our country.
First published February 2009, Christchurch
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Dave Dobbyn : The Songbook
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NZ$ 60.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Dave Dobbyn
Be Mine Tonight, Outlook for Thursday, Loyal, Whaling, Slice of Heaven, Welcome Home - these are only some of the remarkable songs that have framed Dave Dobbyn's long career and made him one of New Zealand's most enduring and best-loved musicians. While generations of New Zealanders have grown up with his music, his songs have never been collected together and published in written form before. Produced to coincide with his new album of greatest hits (to be released in November by Sony Music), Dave Dobbyn: The Songbook will contain 40 of his most celebrated and loved songs. It will be a book of two halves; the first will contain writing about each song from Dobbyn, along with photographs and the lyrics (with guitar chords). The second half of the book will be the score for piano and guitar for every song. Dave Dobbyn: The Songbook is an innovative and substantial book, and in its dedication to the actual music, a significant tribute to ...
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Dick Frizzell - the Painter
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NZ$ 75.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell's images populate our world - you find them on T-shirts, on TV ads, in shop windows, on wine bottles, on cushions and T-towels and in art shows. People appropriate (or borrow) his images in much the same way that he too appropriated many of the images he has painted over the years. He's reached iconic status in NZ - we love him, he's one of our own. As Dick himself says with a surprised chuckle, "I'm just like the Topp Twins now - I can do no wrong, they all love me!" Dick has a great story. After going to art school he found himself in his 20s married and with a young family to support. He worked in advertising until 1974, when his artistic urges made him leave the ad agency to take up working in the vege markets in the early hours of the day so that he could pursue his art. His paintings combined the pragmatics of an adman's need for a compelling motif with the visceral pleasures of expressive modernist paintings. His ...
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