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Leonard Bell

    Der weiße Panther
    Colonial constructs. European images of Maori, 1840-1914
    Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980
    Jewish Lives in New Zealand. A History
    Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists
    Marti Friedlander
    • Marti Friedlander

      • 232 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      The biography explores the impactful work of photographer Marti Friedlander, highlighting her journey from a Jewish immigrant in 1958 to a key figure in capturing New Zealand's evolving landscape. It emphasizes her unique ability to reveal the human emotions behind significant events and personalities through her empathetic lens. The richly illustrated monograph contrasts her thoughtful photography with the prevalence of transient images, showcasing how a deep, attentive perspective can uncover profound truths in the complexities of life and culture.

      Marti Friedlander
    • For fifty years, Marti Friedlander (1928–2016) was one of New Zealand’s most important photographers, her work singled out for praise and recognition here and around the world. Friedlander’s powerful pictures chronicled the country’s social and cultural life from the 1960s into the twenty-first century. From painters to potters, film makers to novelists, and actors to musicians, Marti Friedlander was always deeply engaged with New Zealand’s creative talent. This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Wellington, brings together those extraordinary people and photographs: Rita Angus and Ralph Hotere, C. K. Stead and Maurice Gee, Neil Finn and Kapka Kassabova, Ans Westra and Kiri Te Kanawa, and many many more. Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists chronicles the changing face of the arts in New Zealand while also addressing a central theme in Marti Friedlander’s photography. Featuring more than 250 photographs, many never previously published, the book is an illuminating chronicle of the cultural life of Aotearoa New Zealand.

      Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists
    • Jewish Lives in New Zealand. A History

      • 439 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      The census tells us that 8000 New Zealanders actively identify as Jewish and it is estimated that the broader population is probably around 25,000. There has never been an authoritative history of this country's Jewish population and yet people of Jewish descent (both secular and religious) have played vital roles in all aspects of our society throughout its history. Auckland alone has had five Jewish mayors. Jews have been prominent in New Zealand's business, cultural, intellectual, political, medical, intellectual life and more since the 1840s, and successive waves of immigration have added to the tapestry of New Zealand Jewry. This significant book covers key sectors of activity with specialist writers assigned to each. Richly illustrated, it slots another important piece into the jigsaw of our history.

      Jewish Lives in New Zealand. A History
    • From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants? refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries? arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects whose European modernism radically reshaped the arts in this country. In words and pictures, 'Strangers Arrive' tells their story

      Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980
    • Leonard Bell examines the complex and unbalanced cultural interchange between European and Maori in 19th-century New Zealand and the relationship between visual representation and the ideology of colonialism.

      Colonial constructs. European images of Maori, 1840-1914
    • Wo Sünde ist, da ist auch Mord: Ein spektakulärer Fall im zerrissenen Berlin der Fünzigerjahre Berlin 1958: Wer Geld hat und gern feiern geht, tummelt sich in Harry’s Ballroom. Die Bar ist ein Magnet für Touristen und Partyhungrige, ein Treffpunkt für Stars und Sternchen. Bis der Barkeeper mit einem Distanzschuss aus einer Armbrust ermordet wird. Der unorthodoxe Kriminalassistent Fred Lemke und seine schillernde Kollegin Ellen von Stain ermitteln und nehmen schon bald den Besitzer, Harry Renner, ins Visier. Was steckt hinter der Fassade des charismatischen Unternehmers? Je mehr sie über den Verdächtigen und das Opfer herausfinden, desto größer wird der Fall und desto skrupelloser die politischen Mächte, mit denen es Lemke und von Stain zu tun bekommen. Geht es in diesem Fall um weit mehr als einen Mord?

      Der weiße Panther
    • Der erste Fall des Ermittlerduos Fred Lemke und Ellen von Stain im Berlin der goldenen 50er Jahre.Berlin 1958 – Fred Lemke, ehemals Laternenanzünder, jetzt Quereinsteiger bei der akut unterbesetzten Berliner Kriminalpolizei, wird mit seinem ersten Mordfall betraut. Am Ufer des Fennsees wurde eine männliche Leiche gefunden. Sein Kollege würde den Fall am liebsten als Raubmord klassifizieren und zu den Akten legen, doch Lemke sieht die Sache anders. Zuerst geraten Ehefrau, Haushälterin und Geliebte des Toten ins Visier, doch dann erfährt er mehr über die Vergangenheit des Opfers und über dessen Verstrickungen in den Nationalsozialismus. In einem Berlin, in dem aus den Kellern zerbombter Häuser Rockmusik dringt, und wo sich die jungen Leute auf den Straßen kleiden wie die großen amerikanischen Stars, ermittelt Fred Lemke gemeinsam mit seiner Kollegin, der selbstbewusst-schillernden Baronesse Ellen von Stain. Und sie stoßen dabei auf Widerstände, die zeigen, wie viel Macht die alten Kader noch immer haben.

      Der Petticoat-Mörder