In Face to Face, acclaimed historian Paul Moon
and award-winningphotographer Jane
Ussher provide an intimate encounter with a remarkable
collection of New Zealanders.
Stimulating,
humorous, sometimes controversial and always revealing, the enormously attractive Face to Face offers intimate
portraits of the lives of twelve remarkable New Zealanders.
Through
conversations with Paul Moon,
one of the country’s most acclaimed historians and cultural commentators,and the lens of
photographer Jane Ussher, we get to know these extraordinary Kiwis like never before.
With interviews
supported by commentary and context from Moon, Face to Face provides
a frank,
revealing and often light-hearted glimpse into the minds of some of our truly exceptional
citizens
From household
names such as Tim Finn, Sir Richard Hadlee, Hone Harawira and Alison
Holst, to leaders
in their fields such as public law specialist Mai Chen, concert pianist Michael Houston, writer
Patricia Grace and architect Sir Miles Warren, Face to Face is a rare
survey of the diversity
of talent that contributes to the character of our country.
An exquisite
production,(no exaggeration), made so by Ussher’s gorgeous photography and a refined design format, Face to Face is the
perfect gift – for Father’s Day and beyond.
Dr Paul Moon
is Professor of History at Auckland University of
Technology. Among his
twenty-five
published books are This Horrid Practice: The Myth and
Reality of Traditional
Maori
Cannibalism, New Zealand in the Twentieth Century: The Nation, The People,
biographies of
Governors Hobson and FitzRoy, and the Ngapuhi chief Hone Heke, and
Encounters:
The Creation of New Zealand, which was
shortlisted for the 2014 Ernest Scott
Prize in History.
Jane Ussher is one of New Zealand’s foremost portrait photographers. For 29 years
she
was the chief
photographer at the New Zealand Listener, after which she took up a career as a freelance
photographer. Her work has featured in many books, including collections of her own photographs.
Her landmark book Still Life, which documented Scott and Shackleton’s historic huts in
Antarctica, was a finalist in the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards. Coast: A New
Zealand Journey, which she co-produced with writer
Bruce Ansley, won the Illustrated Non-fiction
category of the same awards in 2014. In 2009 Ussher was made a Member of the New Zealand
Order of Merit, for services to photography.
Hone Harawira - photo by Jane Ussher
For further
information contact: Hannah de Valda
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