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- Title
- Great Barrier Island, 1971
- Content partner
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Collection
- Te Papa Collections Online
- Description
For much of the twentieth century the white canvas A-shaped tent featured in thousands of black and white family snapshots that recorded a favourite New Zealand holiday activity. Each summer the Weekly News also helped institutionalise this pursuit with images of white canvas on beach fronts and riversides. In Great Barrier Island, Richard Collins lovingly distils a collective memory of idyllic camping holidays from this photographic genre by tightly framing the tent to eliminate the particul...
- Format
- Image
- Date created
- 1971
- Creator
- Richard Collins
- URL
- https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/39470
- Related subjects
- Tents / Trees / Tree limbs / Shadows / Great Barrier Island (New Zealand) / silver / photographic gelatin / photographic paper / black-and-white prints / gelatin silver prints / documentary photographs / works of art / black-and-white photography / Contemporary / documentary photography / Great Barrier Island
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