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Piksa Nuigini / Stephen Dupont
Bib ID 6290006
Format BookBook [text, still image, volume]
Author
Dupont, Stephen, 1967- photographer
 
Description [Austinmer, NSW] : Stephen Dupont, 2013 
©2012 
94 unnumbered pages : photographs (some colour), portraits ; 30 cm + 1 single photograph 26 x 21 cm (in 29 x 23 cm folder) (all in 33 x 26 x 7 cm clamshell box) 
Summary

An artist's book presented as a photo documentary of the indigenous peoples of Papua New Guinea. It shows a range of people from the different regions and ethnic groups of Papua New Guinea in improvised studio portraits, mostly in front of a white (or less frequently black) bed sheet. This work was undertaken with the support of the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellowship of Photography from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University.

Notes

"A Bordertown book"-p. [1].

Limited edition of 15 copies signed by the photographer.

The single photograph housed in the folder is a black and white silver gelatin print printed by Chris Reid, Sydney, 2013.

Library's SR copy is no. 4/15.

Subjects Dupont, Stephen -- Travel -- Pictorial works.  |  Indigenous peoples -- Papua New Guinea -- Pictorial works.  |  Documentary photography -- Papua New Guinea.  |  Photography, Artistic.  |  Artists' books -- Australia.  |  Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.  |  Australian
Other authors/contributors Reid, Chris
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