Johnny Hermann's smile, Auckland, 1968

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Johnny Hermann's smile, Auckland, 1968

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Te Papa Collections Online

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It was the late 1960s when our current notion of contemporary photography began to emerge in New Zealand. Les Cleveland’s The silent land and Gary Baigent’s The unseen city were published in 1966 and Ans Westra’s Maori in 1967, the same year the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, The photographer’s eye, brought contemporary American photography to New Zealand. Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie Blow up, centred on a fashion photographer in London, was admired too: for many it seemed to epitomise ...

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Date created

1968

Creator

Gary Baigent

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/697395

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Men / Smiling / Women / Fur coats / Bricks / pipes / Buildings / Auckland (New Zealand) / New Zealand European / silver / photographic gelatin / photographic paper / gelatin silver prints / black-and-white prints / black-and-white photographs / works of art / black-and-white photography / documentary photography / Contemporary / Auckland

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