Recent
photographs and history, celebrating the character and pulse of life of this
unique urban community.
Join us for the launch of this personal
portrait of West Auckland's Te Atatu Peninsula.
Where: Te Atatu Peninsula Library, 595
Te Atatu Road
When: 6pm, Thursday 9 April 2015
John and Grant will be present to
autograph your copy.
.
Te Atatu Me: photographs of an urban New Zealand
village by John B. Turner. Historical essay by Grant
Cole. PhotoForum Inc, Auckland and Turner PhotoBooks, Auckland/Beijing, 2015.
ISBN 978-0-9597818-7-8.
176pp, 168 photographs, 7 illustrations.
Hardcover RRP $NZ60.
Available through RIM
Books, info@rimbooks.com, www.rimbooks.com.
Book release: April 2015.
Te
Atatu Me: photographs of an urban New Zealand village is a personal portrait of West Auckland’s Te Atatu Peninsula by
John B. Turner, the noted New Zealand photographer, teacher and editor of PhotoForum.
Recorded over a seven year period from 2005
to 2011, Turner’s documentary photographs celebrate the character and pulse of
life in this unique and yet typical multicultural New Zealand urban community
where he lived.
Turner captures the sense of place and the
often surprising pace of change, as new houses pop up, shops change hands,
people come and go, and familiar sights are changed forever. Chosen to
represent an extensive photographic essay of the recent past, Turner’s pictures
are accompanied by a perceptive historical essay, ‘Peninsula Dreams,’ by local
illustrator and historian Grant Cole, editor of West of Eden, the journal of the West Auckland Historical Society.
Altogether theirs is an affectionate
portrait of “Tat Norf” with its rural beginnings, its development as a working
class suburb in the 1950s and transformation into an increasingly middle class
and multicultural community today.
A rewarding place to live, Te Atatu
Peninsula can be seen as a microcosm of New Zealand society now, challenged
with the collective responsibility of preserving its special identity and best
values under the pressures of Auckland’s rapid growth and fundamental changes
in New Zealand society.
- From the publisher's description.
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