“The New Photography”, is an exhibition and book of New Zealand’s photographer pioneers of the 1960s and 1970s.
John Daley (1941-2012)
John Daley was born in 1946 in Cromwell. Central Otago He began photographing and processing his own work as a teenager and gained professional experience in photography at Auckland Hospital during school vacations. When he left school in 1964 he worked as a photographer for five years in the Chemistry Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in Wellington
In 1969 Daley left the DSIR for a posting in Sarawak with Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) He returned to New Zealand in 1972 to work as a medical photographer at Auckland Hospital. This also marked a return to the street photography he had been pursuing before he went overseas – only now in Auckland.
He was included in the Photography, A visual dialect booklet and in The Active Eye exhibition, but did not otherwise exhibit or publish his personal work at this time.
Between 1975 and 1977 Daley was photographer at Auckland City Art Gallery. He then set out as a commercial photographer in advertising and corporate work as well as photographing for a number of books, including Craft New Zealand (1978). Bone Stone Sheik New Jewellery New Zealand (1988). Tivaevae-. Portraits of Cook Islands quilting (1992) and his own unpublished book on famous New Zealanders.
In 2004 Daley produced Big Smoke, a book of his documentary photographs from the 1960s and 70s. This was seen as an exhibition at McNamara Gallery. Whanganui, and toured to Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua, and Auckland Central Library.
John Daley died in Auckland in 2012.
From Athol McCredie (Ed.), The New Photography, Te Papa Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 2019.
The Exhibition:
The New Photography – Life in the 60s and 70s.
until October 13.
Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand Toi Art Level 4
55 Cable Street
Wellington, New Zealand
https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/visit/exhibitions/toi-art/new-photography-life-60s-and-70s
The book accompanies the exhibition :
The New Photography, Te Papa Press. Publication date: June 2019. Hardback 22x27cm, 216 pages ISBN: 978-0-9951031-9-1. RRP $NZ70.00.
Buy the book here : https://www.tepapastore.co.nz/collections/te-papa-press/products/the-new-photography-new-zealand-s-first-generation-contemporary-photographers
