Main entry:

Knight, Hardwicke.

Title & Author:

Photography in New Zealand : a social and technical history / Hardwicke Knight.

Publication:

Dunedin, J. McIndoe [1971]

Description:

196 pages illustrations 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 179).
Preface -- Prologue -- The daguerreotype process -- The calotype process -- The collodion process -- Gleatine bromide dry plates and films -- The first notables -- The topographical photographers -- The era of the postcard -- Somer later notables -- Photographers of Stewart Island -- The New Zealand Government Publicity Office -- The portrait photographers -- Some representative portrait photographers -- Photography and the press -- Apparatus: a survery -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: A Kodak chronology -- Appendix II: Principal collections of historical photographs in New Zealand -- Appendix III: List of 16mm films about photography -- Sources consulted -- New Zealand photographers to 1900 -- Geographic list of New Zealand photographers to 1900 -- Index.

Summary:

A Century of history is registered in this book as the author looks at photographers, photographs and photographic equipment in New Zealand since the middle of the 19th century. For the first time the very considerable role that photography has played in this country is properly noted and the work of such photographers as Dr Alfred Barker of Christchurch, Alfred Burton of Dunedin, Josiah Martin of Auckland, and James Bragge of Wellington ranked aesthetically and historically with the best known names in world photography.

Subject:

Photography New Zealand History.
Photographie Nouvelle-Zélande Histoire.
Photography.
New Zealand.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 107903
Call No.: PO2074; ID:86-B21707
Status: Available

Location: Library main 107904
Call No.: PO13342; ID:86-B21707
Status: Available