Warisara Thomson
Published as PhotoForum #97
A response by Georgia Carr for PhotoForum
March 2024
Read MoreWarisara Thomson
Published as PhotoForum #97
A response by Georgia Carr for PhotoForum
March 2024
Read More50 Years and 100 issues of PhotoForum, (maybe, depending on how you count them)
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 10: A case for more curators, The Simple Image, and Barry Clothier & John Turner’s Artides Gallery exhibition in 1965
Read MorePoppy Lekner, Johanna Mechen, Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka, Petra Scheuber, Kate van der Drift, Virginia Woods-Jack
Sanderson Contemporary Art Gallery, Auckland
29/08/23 - 24/09/23
Curated by Women in Photography NZ + AU
Essay by Deidra Sullivan
Read MoreLissa 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.
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 9: Collection case studies: Tom Hutchins, Paul Gilbert, Max Oettli and Barry Myers
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 8: Canterbury Museum & Christchurch Art Gallery
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 7: Internal Affairs & Heritage Departments
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 6: Auckland War Memorial Museum & Auckland Libraries
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 5: Auckland Art Gallery & Alexander Turnbull Library
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 4: Gael Newton: Parting with your art & Photographers’ Archives
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 3: Significance, & Archives for Artists
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 2: The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
A conversation with Athol McCredie on collecting photography
Bad News Books, Te Whanganui-a-Tāra, 2022
Reviewed for PhotoForum by David Eggleton, August 2022
Read MorePhotographer Max Oettli reflects on a selection of his photographs with Ron Brownson, Senior Curator of New Zealand Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Reprinted from Art Toi Magazine, November 2021
Max Oettli: Visible Evidence is showing at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 18 Dec 2021 - 18 Sep 2022
Read MoreNotes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part 1: Introduction
“as far as our pictorial history is concerned, it seems that the most senior officials charged with the oversight of pictorial heritage appear to be asleep at the wheel”.
Read MoreCurrently 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)
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.
Read MoreExhibition:
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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