Marti Friedlander

ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION FINALIST

Marti Friedlander
Leonard Bell
Auckland University Press
ISBN 9781869404444
RRP $75.00

Marti Friedlander has been observing Kiwi lives for over 50 years. Here, Leonard Bell has selected 185 photographs representing the full breadth of her work, many published for the first time using her signature methods. As these images testify, Friedlander’s commitment to sustained and attentive looking by both photographer and viewer affirms the enduring value of the still photograph as a site of thought and feeling.

Associate Professor Leonard “Len” Bell has taught Art History at The University of Auckland since his return to New Zealand in 1973. He has particular expertise in cross-cultural representation, especially in the Pacific region from the eighteenth century to the present, and the art of refugees from Nazism. Len Bell has known Marti Friedlander since 1976 when she took a course in Art History at The University of Auckland.