{"id":257,"date":"2011-12-14T23:11:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=257"},"modified":"2022-12-10T08:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:19:19","slug":"bold-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/bold-centuries","title":{"rendered":"Bold Centuries: a Photographic History Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOLD CENTURIES<\/strong>
\nPHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY ALBUM
\nHaruhiko Sameshima<\/em><\/p>\n

With essays by: Kyra Macfarlane, Ingrid Horrocks, John Wilson, Tim Corbalis, Aaron Lister, Damian Skinner, Fiona Amundsen and Claudia Bell<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Bold<\/a> Bold Centuries is an artist’s book by Haruhiko Sameshima – artist\/photographer based in Auckland. This collage-like book is made-up of his original photographs together with found historical images and texts, both commissioned and found in history books and the Internet. It serves as an engaging and poetic introduction to Sameshima\u2019s longstanding exploration of photography as myth – a skewed tour guide and time machine, taking the reader on a meander through the histories of photographic representation in this country alongside a sweeping and contemporary canvas of our relationships with human habitats and with the land in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe works flow from the photographic ideas of the natural environment to the urban environment and seem to be questioning not just how New Zealand has been represented in the past but how we are currently and how we will continue to be.
\nSameshima, it seems, is a collector of representations of this country, whether photographed by himself or found objects (others\u2019 photos, cigarette cards, postcards, etc.) . . . .<\/p>\n

Bold Centuries is not merely an artist survey book, nor just a collection of loosely related images; it is a curated exhibition placing the artist in context with his forebears and his contemporaries. \u201c
\nAndy Palmer – Eyecontact<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are eight accompanying essays which operate in parallel to Sameshima\u2019s images, without making direct reference to his practice. The connections to the works are oblique, seldom expository. Nevertheless, each essay is carefully crafted and has a comfortable home in this umbrella of a book. The essays each reinforce the mandate of the book as an astute historical album inflected by a contemporary vision and filtered through the lens of a century or more of photographic activity.\u201d
\nHanna Scott \u2013 Lumi\u00e9re Reader<\/p>\n

Bold Centuries. Primarily featuring the author’s original photographs made in New Zealand in style of a variety of well-known photographers. The book questions the language of photography, rather than accepting it as simple affirming codes. 8 essays from authors of a variety of disciplines investigate aspects of photography and its meanings\/language\/usage in New Zealand contexts. These elements are interspersed with collections of found images of New Zealand from a variety of timeframe, and found texts (printed with the original context of the images plus found on the internet) quoted in the captions, complicates the readings and expose the workings of imagery as language, sign, and its role in construction of ideas such as history, place and identity.<\/p>\n

“Great Kiwi authors share their Great Kiwi Classics.
\nNew Zealand Book Council, 2015.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bold Centuries was on Gregory O’Brien’s best 5 list:<\/p>\n

Bold Centuries\u00a0<\/em>(2009) by photographer Haruhiko Sameshima\u00a0is a thought-provoking, fascinating, exemplary publication. Fizzing with visual and intellectual energy, the book asks all sorts of questions while offering all sorts of pleasures to the committed viewer\/reader. It is a notable highpoint in Sameshima’s audacious, uncompromising project as both a photographer and the publisher of Rim Books.<\/p>\n

Read full reviews: Landfall<\/a> Lumiere<\/a> EyeContact<\/a> S’kite<\/a><\/p>\n

Sample pages of Bold Centuries<\/a><\/p>\n

RIM BOOKS
\nISBN 9780473144821 (pbk.)
\n2009
\n196p, ills colour with duotone B&W, 22x24cm.<\/p>\n

RRP NZ $60 plus post and packaging<\/p>\n

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BOLD CENTURIES<\/strong>
PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY ALBUM
Haruhiko Sameshima<\/em><\/p>\n

With essays by: Kyra Macfarlane, Ingrid Horrocks, John Wilson, Tim Corbalis, Aaron Lister, Damian Skinner, Fiona Amundsen and Claudia Bell<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a> Bold Centuries is an artist’s book by Haruhiko Sameshima – artist\/photographer based in Auckland. This collage-like book is made-up of his original photographs together with found historical images and texts, both commissioned and found in history books and the Internet. It serves as an engaging and poetic introduction to Sameshima\u2019s longstanding exploration of photography as myth – a skewed tour guide and time machine, taking the reader on a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-photography","tag-publication-2","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}