Handboek. Ans Westra Photographs (Handbook)

New Zealand: Blair Wakefield Exhibitions WBX, 2005. Reprint. Original Cloth. As New/new. Westra, Ans. New book - I will lift it out of the original printer's box and carefully wrap it for you. Exhibition Curator: Luit Beiringer. Publication Editor: Lawrence McDonald. BWX, Te Aro, Wellington, 2004. First printed in a very small run August 2004 and then reprinted May 2005, Both an exhibition and an accompanying publication, 'Handboek...' provides an in-depth insight into the 45 year photographic journey by one of New Zealand's most persistent and gifted documenters, comprising a gallery of Westra's most revealing and challenging documentary images. Presented here are many group and portrait photographs including Kiwi icons like James K. Baxter and Hone Tuwhare as well as many ordinary New Zealanders, both Maori and pakeha, significant historical events like the Maori Land March of 1976 and the protests against the 1981 Springbok Tour. Large format hardback. 32cms x 25.5cms. B/w photos on the dust jacket. Orange cloth with blindstamped lettering on the front board. Orange eps. 224pp including an Ans Westra chronology, an extensive bibliography, Ans Westra exhibitions, and a Glossary. Profusely illustrated with colour / color and b/w photos, mainly full page. NEW in a NEW dust jacket. A heavy book weighed down with photoplates, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.