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- Title
- Reconnaissance of Terra, Waimamakau, Northland
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- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Collection
- Te Papa Collections Online
- Description
This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). Eric Lee-Johnson kept his photographic practice quiet lest ‘this somewhat despised field’, as he put it, undermine his established reputation as a painter of neo-romantic images of the New Zealand countryside. This allowed him to be experimental, internationalist and abstract in the medium of the camera — indeed, more so than in his painting. The images that resulted from his ‘star trails’ and infra-red exper...
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- Image
- Date created
- 1957
- Creator
- Eric Lee-Johnson
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- https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/332520
- Related subjects
- spirals / Moon / Houses / Night / silver / photographic gelatin / photographic paper / black-and-white prints / gelatin silver prints / works of art / black-and-white photography / night photography / photography / Waimamaku
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