Early New Zealand photography : images and essays / edited by Angela Wanhalla and Erika Wolf.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-204) and index.

Introduction: photography, materiality and history / Angela Wanshalla and Erika Wolf -- Family photo or national treasure? Another look at the Barrett sister's daguerreotype / Christine Whybrew -- Is this a Polack daguerreotype? / Keith Giles -- Persistent images: M�aori photographs in English museum collections / Jocelyne Dudding -- Daniel Louis Mundy and the public works: photography and the West Coast Road / Wayne Barrar -- Foy Brothers' portrait of Ana Reupene Whetuki and child / Ken Hall -- Mission, reservation and recognition in the work of W.A. Collis / Simon Ryan -- Text and image in Alfred Burton's photograph of the scene of the "Hursthouse Outrage" at Te Kumi (1885) / Christine Whybrew -- At the borders of colonial masculinity: Robert Gant's photographs of men together / Chris Brickell -- William Williams and "The old shebang" / Kerry Hines -- Photography and the ethnological macabre / Roger Blackley -- Making tracks: photography and trade in the nineteenth century / Rebecca Rice -- The Eiffel towers in Dunedin: stereo photography and modernity at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890 / Erika Wolf -- The asylum lens: photographs in the Seacliff Asylum case files / Barbara Brookes -- "Treasure up the records of the fathers" : photographing Otago's early settlers / Jill Haley -- Realising a photgraph: Queen victoria unveiled / Gary Blackman -- The meaning of "colour": photography and portraiture, 1889-1904 / Angela Wanhalla -- Pictures of Panyu: images of China from the Canton Villages Mission / Brian Moloughney -- From glass plate to album: New Hebrides mission photograhs in the album of Reverend William Veitch Milne / Antje L�ubcke -- The best of intentions: imaging and imagining Te Mata Road / Simon Dench -- "Water babies in Maoriland": photomontage in the illustrated press / Cathy Tuato'o Ross -- New Zealand's thermal region and the photographic book / Anne Maxwell -- New Zealanders in action: snapshots of combat / Sandy Callister -- Vernacular to valuable: the changing function of ambrotypes through New Zealand's photographic history / Ruth Harvey -- Towards a single visual history of New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific / Max Quanchi -- List of contributors -- Directory of New Zealand photographic collections.

"We are all participants in an increasingly visual culture, yet we rarely give thought to the ways that photographs shape our experience and understanding of the world and historical past. This book looks at a range of New Zealand photographs up to 1918 and analyses them as photo-objects, considering how they were made, who made them, what they show and how our understanding of them can vary or change over time."--Publisher description.

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