Man Holds a Fish

Author: Glenn Busch
Publication date: 08/08/2024

HAUNTING PORTRAITS BY ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S FINEST PHOTOGRAPHERS Selected by the legendary photographer himself, the 79 extraordinary images in Glenn Busch's A cement and celebrate his reputation as one of New Zealand's most important photographers. Almost other-worldly, and striking in their humanity and emotional effect, the images in this resonant book bear returning to again and again. Busch's work secured public notice in 1984 with the publication of Working Men. As art writer Peter Ireland observes in his essay, 'In the early 1970s. the social documentary tradition was the reigning, respectable approach, and Busch's work remains foundational, even after half a century retaining a vividness and force in its resistance to any tendency to idealise in his portraiture, as this book so clearly attests.' A handsome, large-format book, beautifully designed by Seven, this book serves as b...