{"id":4222,"date":"2026-01-15T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:12:45","slug":"one-foot-on-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/one-foot-on-the-bottom","title":{"rendered":"one foot on the bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

one foot on the bottom<\/strong>
Mary Macpherson
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one foot on the bottom<\/em> is about childhood or the space that childhood once occupied. Using family Kodachrome slides from the 1950s and ’60s taken by her late mother Evelyn, and her contemporary photographs, Mary Macpherson creates a portrait of family holidays by the beach, lake and river. The book is poetic and unexpected and placing the past with the present, so time folds in on itself. The result is an evocative representation of childhood, the power of photographs and our love of spending time by water throughout Aotearoa\/New Zealand. The book includes a lyrical essay by Mary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist\/writer Gregory O\u2019Brien recently wrote about one foot on the bottom<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018A kind of child-like intensity and wonder characterises much of the best photography, as it does poetry. Yet there is also a sense of care, nurture and an understated delight in one foot on the bottom<\/em> which could be described as ‘parental’. Mary Macpherson and her mother Evelyn survey their subjects carefully, thoughtfully and tenderly.  Family is the coastline along which their camera travels, looking towards or away from the ever-recurring sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evelyn Macpherson’s photographs anticipate her daughter’s \u2013 a whispered conversation in the brightness and clarity of a shared world. At the same time, Mary’s photographs carry her mother’s inside them–not as reflections, precisely, but as a lingering music. Where did summer go? How did that summer end? As if a shadow that fell on a wall fifty years earlier might still be found on that wall. For all time. \u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Macpherson is a photographer and poet from Te Whanganui-a-Tara\/Wellington. Engaging with concepts of identity, place and change, her practice responds to emotional and social transformation. She has exhibited nationally across the country, published limited edition photobooks and her work is in many public collections including Te Papa, the Dowse Art Museum, Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN: 978-1-0670943-0-0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

112 pages
270x210x12 mm
54 photographs
Softcover with flaps
Section sewn, layflat binding
Design Mary Macpherson and Katrina Duncan
Editing Peter Black and Mary Macpherson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition of 100
RRP $80.00<\/p>\n\n\n

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A kind of child-like intensity and\u00a0wonder characterises much of the best photography, as it does poetry. Yet there is also a sense of care, nurture\u00a0and an understated delight in One foot on the bottom\u00a0which could be\u00a0described as ‘parental’. Mary Macpherson and her mother Evelyn survey their subjects carefully, thoughtfully and tenderly.\u00a0 Family is the coastline along which their camera travels, looking towards or away from the ever-recurring sea.\u00a0 Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,121,29,112,14,31,86,11,74],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-biography","category-collaborative-art","category-contemporary-art","category-design","category-new-zealand-art","category-photobook","category-photography","category-urban-environment","tag-publication-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}