
Athol McCredie: biography and 10 questions about The New Photography
Athol McCredie, editor of The New Photography discusses his work with Te Papa Press.
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New Zealand’s photographer pioneers of the 1960s and 1970s.
Publication date: June 2019
NZ RRP (incl. GST): $70.00
Extent: 216 pages
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-9951031-9-1
Out of print
In this handsome book, leading photography curator Athol McCredie tells the story of the beginnings of contemporary photography – also known as art photography – in New Zealand. Through interviews with the photographers Gary Baigent, Richard Collins, John Daley, John Fields, Max Oettli, John B Turner, Len Wesney and Ans Westra, and accompanied by an outstanding introductory essay, McCredie shows how the break-through approach of personal documentary photography created a new field of photography in New Zealand that was not simply illustrative but rather spoke for itself and with its own language.
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Finalist in the 2021 Designer Institute of New Zealand Best Design Awards.
From the Winter issue of Art News, “To those of us who have always had wide access to both cameras and imagery … The New Photography is a timely reminder of the beginnings of New Zealand contemporary photography.”
Athol McCredie is Curator Photography at Te Papa, where he has worked since 2001. Prior to that he was curator and acting director at Manawatu Art Gallery (now Te Manawa), and he has been involved with photography as an author, researcher, curator and photographer since the 1970s. His most recent book is New Zealand Photography Collected (Te Papa Press) which was shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Publication date: June 2019
NZ RRP (incl. GST): $70.00
Extent: 216 pages
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-9951031-9-1
Out of print
Athol McCredie, editor of The New Photography discusses his work with Te Papa Press.
From the sublime to the surreal, the familiar to the forgotten and the 1850s to the present – see New Zealand photography like never before in this unique visual history.