Posts by Peter Alsop
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Pete Sime,
Thx Peter, I droped Natalie Poland a note today. Hocken very helpful to the book with some scans they did for me of old Otago Witness annual covers - some delightful images including "Brown Sea Rovers" (though foot faulting for some of the cultural inappropriateness reasons discussed above). There is a very strong collection of those in the book for the Otago lovers. Hocken was also the only library that would photocopy for me the old annual reports of the tourist and rail departments, which was most helpful and fascinating reading. In years to come, all those reports are being digitised, which would have been nice for searching but i had to do it the old fashioned way! Thx Hocken.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
"There is no such thing as a Native problem in these happy isles", was the official position. Guide Rangi though called it straight, to Helena Rubenstein and the First Lady to name a couple, however on how race relations really were, including Maori being not allowed in some establishments until the 1950s. I'm recalling from Mark Derby's essay in the book, which is a seriously compelling read on this topic of the role of Maori in early tourism and in eary publicity as well. It is a great piece of research. Did you also know 'Maoriland' was the first cable (then-twitter!) address for the Dept of Tourist and Health Resorts?
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
Paste Up is a fantastic book, and much credit is fue to Hamish for that work. As you note, it covers the nz poster of all kinds through all eras. Selling the Dream is a drill down on tourism publicilty - posters, brochures, magazines and some other intriguing paper bits and pieces - until the 60s when tv and colour photography kicked in and the poster look really changed markedly. Hamish was very supportive of our book, nice guy to deal with.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Re the maori chief .... Great poster, enjoying it now in my dining room .... chief topia peehi turoa, ngati patu-tokotoko. Great essay in the book on the role of Maori in early publicity by Mark Derby. Tells of the expropriation of imagery too, incl the insult of never including the names of chiefs like this one. See the hand coloured glass slide of him in the sampler http://www.sellingthedream.co.nz/view-sampler/ …. His name is in our comprehensive reference appendix, noting we kept the book clear of attributions for a cleaner look.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Peter Alsop,
chief topia peehi turoa, ngati patu-tokotoko. Great essay in the book on the role of Maori in early publicity by Mark Derby. Tells of the expropriation of imagery too, incl the insult of never including the names of chiefs like this one. See the hand coloured glass slide of him in the sampler http://www.sellingthedream.co.nz/view-sampler/ .... His name is in our comprehensive reference appendix, noting we kept the book clear of attributions for a cleaner look.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Hebe,
Reproductions? Hell, why not purchase a definitive collection of the work in a high-end large-format coffee table book that had authenticity as its key aim (conflict of interest acknowledged)! We can save the vintage authentic v reproduction debate for another blog :-} . The large majority of the nearly 1000 images in the book have hitherto not been publicly shown/celebrated before (well, based on my decade of looking and hunting at least), many images finding their way home from abroad.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Thx Chris, hadnt seen the 'probably best' blog before, though all those images are in the book. Those images are actually from the Turnbull library (after 2 years on a book you sadly recognise the scans), and should have been attributed to Turnbull on the post. The other post you shared is mainly post 1960, though the top advert is lovely and part of a series that ran in top US household and lifestyle mags in the mid 1930s, incuding Forbes magazine. One of the series, though unsure which image, received a design accolade. There are 5 images from that series in the book, actually one of my faourite spreads in the book.
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Thx Ian, can recommend the magazine. Barry Hancox, Editor, has been very supportive of the book and contributed a stunning essay on the significance of glass slides (see bottom image on post). thx.