Starkwhite Gallery is delighted to present its first exhibition of Marti Friedlander’s work in partnership with the Marti Friedlander Estate.
Marti Friedlander (1928-2016) had an almost sixty year career in New Zealand. She arrived from England in early 1958 and was taking photographs until shortly before her death. From the early 1960s on she became one of the best-known and most celebrated photographers here; her work reproduced in periodicals and books and exhibited ever more widely, especially after the Auckland Art Gallery-organised retrospective in 2001, which toured the country.
Most of the photographs in this exhibition are original prints from the 1960s and 1970s, with many of them included in her Larks in a Paradise (1974, with texts by James McNeish). Except for two, a New York street scene and the self-portrait made in Paris, they are all New Zealand subjects.
And those subjects are diverse – city, suburban, small town, rural and one ‘wilderness’ (Milford Sound), various kinds of protests and demonstrations, work and ceremonies, as well as their equally diverse human inhabitants and participants…
Read more about the exhibition here.
The Marti Friedlander | Starting Point for a Complicated Story exhibition is showing at the Auckland Starkwhite Gallery until August 19, and at the Queenstown Starkwhite Gallery from August 1 to September 9.
