Our Reading Group takes place on the third and fourth Thursday of the month. Thursday 28 August:
Through Shaded Glass: Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960 by Lissa Mitchell. Author Lissa Mitchell will attend for Q&A.
The contribution of women to the first century of photography has been overlooked across the world, including in New Zealand. With few exceptions, photographic histories have tended to focus on the male maker.
This important book tilts the balance, unearthing a large and hitherto unknown number of women photographers, both professional and amateur, who operated in New Zealand from the 1860s to 1960, either as assistants in the early studios or later running studios in their own right.
It takes the reader on a journey through the backrooms of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photographic studios, into private homes, out onto the street and up into the mountains, and looks at the range of photographic practices in which women were involved. Through superb images and fascinating individual stories, it brings an important group of photographers into the light.
Copies of the books will be for sale at the Reading Group, with a generous 30% discount available to attendees on the day.
Free entry. Koha will be collected at the meeting. All proceeds go towards the purchase of acid free envelopes for document storage.
Please register for this group by booking your free ticket. We will meet by the blue couches by the display of the Treaty of Waitangi on level 4 at 1.50pm.