{"product_id":"different-light-first-photographs-on-aotearoa","title":"Different Light : First Photgraphs on Aotearoa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe mīhini mīharo reveals nineteenth-century Aotearoa as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1848, two decades after a French inventor mixed daylight with a cocktail of chemicals to fix the view outside his window onto a metal plate, photography arrived in Aotearoa. How did these ‘portraits in a machine’ reveal Māori and Pākehā to themselves and to each other? Were the first photographs ‘a good likeness’ or were they tricksters? What stories do they capture of the changing landscape of Aotearoa?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom horses laden with mammoth photographic plates in the 1870s to the arrival of the Kodak in the late 1880s, New Zealand’s first photographs reveal Kīngi and governors, geysers and slums, battles and parties. They freeze faces in formal studio portraits and stumble into the intimacy of backyards, gardens and homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Different Light\u003c\/em\u003e brings together the extraordinary and extensive photographic collections of three major research libraries – Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, Alexander Turnbull Library and Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena – to coincide with a touring exhibition of some of the earliest known photographs of Aotearoa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMāu he kāmera! Māu he kāmera! Mā tātou he kāmera!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz\/authors-and-editors\/catherine-hammond\/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatherine Hammond\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is the director of collections and research at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. She was formerly Hocken Librarian at the University of Otago Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou, and before that head of documentary heritage at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum and research library manager at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz\/authors-and-editors\/s\/shaun-higgins\/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShaun Higgins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is curator pictorial at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. He has worked on exhibitions for two decades, most recently \u003cem\u003eRobin Morrison: Road Trip\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). He has an MA, BA and PGDip from the University of Auckland in anthropology, art history and museum studies, and further qualifications in photography and care and identification of photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside the editors, \u003cem\u003eA Different Light\u003c\/em\u003e includes essays by Angela Wanhalla (Kāi Tahu), professor of History at the University of Otago; Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi), curator, Māori at the Alexander Turnbull Library; Anna Petersen, curator, Photographs at Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena; and Natalie Marshall, formerly curator, Photographs at Alexander Turnbull Library.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43585812070597,"sku":"","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/A_20Different_20Light.jpg?v=1716726968","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/different-light-first-photographs-on-aotearoa","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}