John Fields Forty Years Ago Today
selected vintage photographs
by John Fields & David Langman
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About the Book
Fields' lively eye roamed far and wide, producing a body of work characterized by diversity of subject but connected by a thread of social awareness, humour and a formal sensibility that can still stop one short with its elegance and pungency. And there are the classics of New Zealand photography: the view of One Tree Hill through the factory chimneys, the agapanthus against the unpainted sunlit colonial weatherboarding, the Fijian man in traditional dress seemingly bewildered among the clothes racks of the department store. Moments in time that at once define it but escape being limited by it. The gift of photography that Fields' work presents in abundance. – Peter Ireland
Author website
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Fine Art Photography
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Project Option: Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
# of Pages: 80 - Publish Date: Feb 15, 2009
- Language English
- Keywords , New Zealand photography Documentary 1960s social documentary architecture landscape
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About the Creator
David Langman
New Zealand
David Langman was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is a curator and sometime tutor/lecturer in museology, with degrees in art history and art administration, who organises exhibitions of contemporary New Zealand photography. From October 2000 - May 2008 he was Director of the New Zealand Centre for Photography, Wellington and during that time he was Managing Editor of the quarterly New Zealand Journal of Photography. See my website for selected artists.