The cover image of Alan Miller: Photographs offers a suggestive entry point to the sequence of photographs inside. It mostly pictures a near-formless expanse of clouds; a foreground bright swathe and stormier ones above and beyond. Miller has used both analogue (Leica) and digital cameras, the latter colour, printed in black and white, so that the images can take on a hyperreal quality. Images, taken in New Zealand and throughout the world, including Australia, India, Egypt, Italy, France, Britain and Iceland, capturing a lifetime's activities, experience and knowledge. [Text extracted from the book's introduction written by Leonard Bell]
- Pages: 192
- Dimensions: 290 x 270 x 25mm
Meet Alan Miller Born in Oamaru, New Zealand, in 1947. After several years of extensive travelling in the 1970s, he returned to New Zealand completing a degree in art history, since when he has continued to photograph full-time and has exhibited sporadically. This second publication of his work captures his often enigmatic and haunting images taken over many countries he has travelled in the last 50 years. He lives with his family in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Meet Leonard Bell: Teaching at the University of Auckland for many years, Bell is now an independent art and cultural historian. His most recent books are Strangers Arrive: Emigres and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930-1980 (2017) and Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists (2020). He edited and wrote the foreword and afterword for Francis Pound's Gordon Walters (Auckland University Press, 2023). He has also been published in Australia, Great Britain, USA, Czechia, Germany and Japan.
