Reconnaissance of Terra, Waimamakau, Northland

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Reconnaissance of Terra, Waimamakau, Northland

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Te Papa Collections Online

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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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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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