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Through Shaded Glass

Lissa Mitchell

Through Shaded Glass. Women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960

Published by Te Papa Press, June 2023

Written by Lissa Mitchell, Curator Historical Photography at Te Papa, Through Shaded Glass takes the reader on a journey through the backrooms of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photographic studios, into private homes, out onto the street and up into the mountains, and looks at the range of photographic practices in which women were involved. Through superb images and fascinating individual stories, it brings an important group of photographers into the light.

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Places in the mind - online exhibition

Currently featured in the 2022 Auckland Festival of Photography online programme.

With: Peter Black, David Cook, Harry Culy, Chevron Hassett, Mary Macpherson, Jane Wilcox

PhotoForum Online exhibition: October 2021

Curated by Mary Macpherson and Harry Culy

Essay: The Marzipan Tree, by Mark Amery for PhotoForum

(Image: Peter Black from Blacksville)

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The Auction House, the Hammer and the NFT 

Report by Stuart Sontier and John B Turner for PhotoForum Online, March 2022

Webb’s auction house in Auckland recently put up two scans of early 20th Century glass plate negatives as NFTs for an online auction. Their first foray into this environment netted $51,250 for an image of the artist posing at his easel and $76,250 for the view of him surrounded by his painting in his studio. The auction estimates were between $5,000 - $8,000 each.

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Nature Boy: The Photography of Olaf Petersen

Exhibition:
Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira
7 April 2022 – March 2023

Book:
Published by Auckland University Press with Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira, edited by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins

PhotoForum Online is pleased to publish this essay by Shaun Higgins, Curator Pictorial, Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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