Capture: Eyes In A City - Gary Baigent's Auckland
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Wow, great shots. I particularly like the last one.
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It's well worth checking out the book in the library...
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"This Auckland" - a National Film Unit film from 1967 - was recently posted in the NZ on Screen Auckland collection, and puts you right in that time. I don't think it will embed but here's the link.
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/this-auckland-1967
There is also a short film made for television in 1967, about Gary and his photographs. It's in the TVNZ archive but isn't online. Perhaps NZ On Screen might like to check it out?
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JacksonP, in reply to
Great Jonathan. This has been a real labour of love, and I'm stoked to have it on Capture.
On the above, I think you could embed using iframe tags in the main post, but not in comments. Just as well to have it as a link I reckon. People can, and should, click. It's a classic video.
Cheers.
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Every one a gem, but for me, the Christian Spiritualist one has an extra something. Especially after following the link to the Te Papa collection (thanks) and find they too have it, though oddly a different print with variant name and substantially more tightly cropped. With a thumbnail bringing out that the grey silhouette of presumed demolition worker carrying plank ready for casting into the fire, appears very much as a dynamic cruciform image, while zoomed in his heat-shimmered edge is apparent. Marvellous!
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
the Christian Spiritualist one has an extra something
Yes, me too. Hard to say what, but the sign seems so appropriate for what's going on behind it.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
There is also a short film made for television in 1967, about Gary and his photographs. It's in the TVNZ archive but isn't online. Perhaps NZ On Screen might like to check it out?
Hell yes. Thanks for the tip.
RB
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Russell Brown, in reply to
On the above, I think you could embed using iframe tags in the main post, but not in comments.
There is a growing number of embeddable videos on NZ On Screen, and embed code is provided for all those. Unfortunately, they do not include any video licensed from TVNZ ...
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When I got The Unseen City off Trademe recently, it made me look back at the b&w photos of Auckland I had taken, mostly between 1985 – 1989. Started scanning them, for the halibut.
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Lilith __, in reply to
A sense of plaice, by a snapper
Started scanning them, for the halibut
This must be cod for something? ;-)
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The pic of the stationwagon in the rain, says it is in Newton but I'm pretty sure it is Ponsonby Intermediate from Pompallier Terrace. It's not that I'm a savant or anything (or even really care) but I was riding past there today and noticed the unusual shape of the roofs and as coincidence has it, saw them again now. Great photos.
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Jonathan Ganley, in reply to
Thanks for that Myles - I had real trouble reconciling those buildings and that scene with anywhere in Newton, but looking at Pompallier Tce on street view, and seeing the wall and those distinctive roofs, it all makes sense. The steeple on the skyline must be St Stephens church, on the corner of Shelly Beach Rd and Jervois Rd.
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JacksonP, in reply to
The steeple on the skyline must be St Stephens church, on the corner of Shelly Beach Rd and Jervois Rd.
That's freaky. Just did the Street View, and definitely the school rooftops. Well spotted Myles. I did a screen grab, but then thought might not be wise to repost GMaps. Here’s link to it. Might need to turn around, and look North.
ETA: Seems link takes you to my last viewed.
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Jonathan Ganley, in reply to
photos of Auckland I had taken, mostly between 1985 – 1989
The Newmarket Railway Station building looking decrepit in 1988. At the time I was aware of Gary’s work but hadn’t yet seen the The Unseen City, or his photo of the station and tracks that we feature in the post.
Seems link takes you to my last viewed
Bang on!
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That shot’s a ripper Jonathan.
Here’s one of the path to the walk bridge.
And the Broadway Diner around the same time as yours.
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You could call this one Newton.... top of Mt Eden Road
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Seems this one could fit here too...
heading for Laneway
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Clive Wilson the artist? My second cousin. He lived next door in St Mary's Bay when I was a small child. I think he's more into photography now.
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Would love to see the book re-printed ……
This building (now housing The Corner Store bar) features in the book as the Kozy dairy, stationer and dry cleaning, with a hoisery and underwear shop next door. Tho I think the sportscar parked outside may have been the main event….
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Jonathan Ganley, in reply to
This building (now housing The Corner Store bar)
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More contrast ... at Art In The Dark 2012.
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I'd have loved to see a copy of this book. This is the Auckland of my childhood. Though I was brought up in Takapuna, and lived there until I was 18, in 1982, the central city and surrounds were a place I was much familiar with.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I’d have loved to see a copy of this book
Request it from the library, though it looks like there is a bit of a queue now : )
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There remains a rueful grubby sameness for early morning Aucklanders. The refurbished public spaces demanded by modern town planning and apartment living bypass much of Baigent’s patch. Hand held technique may have been a school style of the time, e.g. Murray Cammicks later Queeen St classics, but still differentiate from the instant “Bressons” of today via their iphones and instagram.
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Sad to note the passing of John Fields, another photographer of Auckland people and places in the 1960s and 1970s. Fields documented Auckland architecture in his 1971 book 'Victorian Auckland'. This book is worth seeking out, as so many buildings of that era are now gone. There are tributes by Harvey Benge here, and by Ron Brownson here.
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