Art & Design - Photography - New Zealand Photography

Miner Joseph Divis, born in Bohemia, photographed life in mining towns Blackball, Waiuta and Waihi where he worked between 1909 and 1935. Although an outsider, Divis loved this country. When he died in 1967 he was one of the last inhabitants in the ghost town of Waiuta, site of one of NZ’s richest gold-bearing quartz reefs. Thanks to Divis’s graphic, sensitive work, we have an extraordinary record of the isolated and often dangerous life in our frontier communities.

Brian Brake (1927-1988) was New Zealand's most well-known and internationally successful photographer, known worldwide for photo essays like Monsoon (1961) and locally for the book New Zealand, Gift of the Sea (1963). Twenty years after his death, however, Brake's vast body of work remains unseen - or critically considered - in its entirety. What was Brake's background and what were his influences? What sort of photographer was he? What was his popular reputation based on? How has he been he perceived by the generations of contempo... read more

Reg Graham is well-known for his photographs of people involved in the arts: those who have, in their own way, influenced the cultural life of New Zealand. In CLICK! Graham captures the essence of over ninety of the most intriguing and compelling artistic personalities of the last decade. Reg Graham's splendid black and white portraits give us a fascinating and intimate glimpse into the characters of luminary painters, writers, actors, musicians and dancers. His gallery includes a Renaissance-like photograph of artist Ralph Hot... read more

An extraordinary pictorial. With over 1200 previously unpublished photographs, this volume reflects the unique atmosphere of our enchanting country.

Where is it that comes to mind when you are asked to think about a place that is significant to you? What makes one place more important to you than another? What is your connection with this place and what is it that continues to make it important in your life today? These were questions Glenn Busch put to the people of Christchurch through the pages of their daily newspaper, The Press. Their answers reward your attention. Funny, tragic, poignant, unusual, ordinary stories, told honestly and from the heart. Bruce ... read more

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This book documents and celebrates the characters who catch that most-prized Kiwi food - the whitebait. Whitebaiters are a breed apart and photographers Anita Peters and Murray Hedwig have spent over three years travelling the country talking to and photographing New Zealanders about their passion, and documenting the, at times, complex unwritten 'rules' that surround it.

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. ... read more

There’s something special about getting married in our beautiful country that brings out the warm, the wacky and the innovative in so many marrying couples. Over the past few years, couples who want their day to be just a bit special have turned to father and son photographers Frank and Florian Habicht to be the wedding day photographers and to capture the lively mood of their ceremonies. I Do: Weddings New Zealand Style brings together a collection of their wedding images, packaged with inspirational and thoughtful word... read more

For photographer Warwick Orme, Floranova is a culmination of a lifelong interest in photography and a passion for the beauty of flowers. His images are unique, conveying his personal passion for and knowledge of his subject. Now with the use of cutting edge photographic technology and lavish format, Orme has taken the traditional floral still-life into breathtaking new territory. Shooting and cropping close, he captures exquisite details of stamens, pollen, nuance of colour and pattern with all the analytical fervour of a botanist.... read more

This stunning book is a photographic journey throughout New Zealand. The entire country is represented in some way, e.g. a scenic shot and a portrait might be all that is needed to convey a sense of place and feeling for the deep south, just as a cafe scene and a view of the harbour could describe Wellington. Starting in the far north, the photographs are grouped regionally and move south geographically through the country. The visual journey includes both black and white and colour images and a good mixture of landscape, portrait,... read more

Andy Katz's camera has taken him on many journeys. Like all great photographers, Katz has the knack of being in the right place at the right time, able to capture a transitory ray of light or a fleeting human encounter. New Zealand offered an irresistible subject for Katz's lens. This charmed pair of islands, bridging the South Pacific and the Tasman Sea, indeed provides, as the title suggests, a compelling meeting place for sky, earth and sea. In these pages New Zealand reveals itself in turn as fiery, dramatic, stark, hauntingly ... read more

A look into our recent past when New Zealand was beginning to move away from a purely rural economy to an urban society. This is conveyed through a collection of more than 250 photographs selected by William Main which were made in the first half of the 20th century. Nearly all the people featured in this book are unknown. The people who posed for these postcards did so because they wanted to send them to their friends and relations. Most were made in a studio belonging to a professional photographer. Eventually, however, amateur's... read more

Out of Print, advised 11/11/2004. A collection of the photographs exhibited in the Epson New Zealand Photography Awards for 2003.

DoP - November 20008, Auckland Gerar Toye, the Global Gypsy, shares his spontaneous imagery and insights from twenty years of being on the road.

A beautifully assembled collection of John Pascoe's family photographs from the 1940's, complemented by excerpts from his diary of the time. First published October 2005.

Since 1996, Andrew Ross has been building an extraordinary record of aspects of a vanishing New Zealand. His beautifully lit, atmospheric photographs of dilapidated buildings, industrial workshops and domestic interiors are one of the outstanding bodies of work in contemporary New Zealand photography. For Fiat Lux, five writers have collaborated with Ross to choose ten photographs each on a particular theme , and have written short essays to accompany them. First published March 2008.

This edition is out of print. Expressionist photography from around New Zealand. Acknowledged as a major figure in the evolution of photography in New Zealand, Anne Noble addresses a remarkable range of social, ethical and poetic issues, from landscape to religion, from the personal to the political. Patient, poised and intimate, hers are images that discover states of grace amongst the objects of ordinary life. First published 2001.

First published December 1994.

This outstanding collection of photographs from one of New Zealand's most pre-eminent artists, Grahame Sydney, pays homage to the Antarctic landscape. At the invitation of Antarctica New Zealand, Sydney travelled to Antarctica in November-December 2003, and again in October 2006. His photographs reveal an extraordinary terrain that is solemn, sparse and poised with a magnificent stillness. Exploring a continent that appears at first glance to be devoid of colour, warmth or comfort, each image celebrates the rare flashes of astonish... read more