Flight, AWMM

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Title

Flight, AWMM

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This photograph by Haruhiko Sameshima was taken in 1991 at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Sameshima used a two-and-a-quarter square inch camera for the shot, which features one of the bird dioramas at the museum. Rather than photographing the dioramas from the front, Sameshima's image is constructed so that the viewer looks through the frosted glass background of one diorama into another. The result is a slightly strange perspective that seems to free the birds, the opaque glass heightenin...

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Format

Image

Date created

1991

Creator

Haruhiko Sameshima

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/622365

Related subjects

Galleries & museums / Taxidermy / Exhibitions / Birds / optical illusion / Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira / photographic gelatin / silver / photographic paper / black-and-white prints / gelatin silver prints / black-and-white photographs / works of art / black-and-white photography / Postmodern / Contemporary / Auckland

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