Curated collection of early New Zealand photographs provides unique historical insights
Edited by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins for expert synthesis and interpretation
Includes works from the Tamaki Paenga Hira, Auckland War Memorial Museum, and Alexander Turnbull Library collections
Comprehensive narrative traces the evolution of photography in New Zealand from 1848 to the late 1880s
Hardcover format ensures durability and longevity for collectors and readers
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The mīhini mīharo reveals nineteenth-century Aotearoa as never before.
In 1848, two decades after a French inventor mixed daylight with a cocktail of chemicals to fix the view outside his window onto a metal plate, photography arrived in Aotearoa. How did these ‘portraits in a machine’ reveal Māori and Pākehā to themselves and to each oth