Photographic books: December 2011

Not all photographs are taken equally.

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17th December, 2011

Review

Contemporary photography is one of those genres that can get people’s teeth squeaking. Believers see it as a fraught environment in which aesthetic decisions need to be delicately balanced with complex representational issues. But for doubters it’s an over-theorised field that analyses far too deeply the act of pointing a camera. Two recent New Zealand books demonstrate the pleasures, and dangers, available at each end of this spectrum. Although Peter Black’s I Loved You the Moment I Saw You doesn’t quite ...

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