As a young student at the University of Canterbury's School of Fine Arts
in the 1980s, photographer David Cook made it his project to explore the
streets of central Christchurch day and night, finding new vantage points,
meeting strangers, taking photographs. Punks, boot boys, beery crowds, the
Birdman, as well as mums with prams, school boys, bell-ringers, nuns and royal
watchers - Meet Me in the Square reveals the people of 1980s Christchurch.
After a series of major earthquakes in 2011, David
returned to his former hometown and found the central city irreparably damaged.
He was inspired to unearth his archive of 6000 photographs of Christchurch he'd
shot as a young man in his twenties, rebuilding through images the city as he
remembered it.
This beautifully designed book of photographs of 1980s
Christchurch is a fascinating cultural commentary and a moving, nostalgic
journey through a city now changed beyond recognition.
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