ANZAC - a very special book to commemorate exhibition - - PHOTOGRAPHS BY LAURENCE ABERHART

Publication April 2014

ISBN 9780864739339

Format Hardback

rrp $60

This impeccably produced (no exaggeration) hardback volume features large-format reproductions of 72 photographs by leading New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart. They provide an almost-comprehensive record of fifty New Zealand ‘Digger’ memorials (those featuring statues rather than abstract sculpture), and a representative range of their Australian counterparts.

Director’s foreword: Cam McCracken

Introduction: Jock Phillips

72 full-page photographs

ANZAC: Photographs by Laurence Aberhart will be published in April 2014 to coincide with the opening of a major exhibition at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. The exhibition will subsequently tour.

96 pages, 270x310mm, hardback with dustjacket

Victoria University Press in association with Dunedin Public Art Gallery

About the artist

Laurence Aberhart was born in Nelson in 1949, and since 1983 has lived and worked in Russell, Bay of Islands. He has been at the forefront of New Zealand photography since the late 1970s, and is recognised as a major international figure. His photographs have been exhibited widely in New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere, and significant holdings of his work are to be found in public galleries on both sides of the Tasman. Major solo exhibitions include the Stedelijik Museum Amsterdam in 2002, the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia, in 2005, City Gallery Wellington and touring, 2007–2009. His landmark publication Aberhart (VUP 2007) features full-page reproductions of 240 of his major photographs.