Fiona Pardington : the pressure of sunlight falling
Description: "An ambitious journey of the nineteenth century was the third voyage of the French explorer Dumont d'Urville, from 1837-1840. It was just before the invention of photography, when phrenology, the study of people's skulls, was the latest thing. D'Urville chose to take on the voyage an eminent phrenologist, Pierre- Marie Dumoutier, to preserve likenesses of people by making life casts. Fiona Pardington first learned of the life casts in 2007, which initiated a four-year project. It took her from Auckland to Musee de l'homme in Paris, as she researched and photographed some of [the] casts of Maori, Pacific and European heads, including casts of her Ngai Tahu ancestors"--Cover.
Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "An ambitious journey of the nineteenth century was the third voyage of the French explorer Dumont d'Urville, from 1837-1840. It was just before the invention of photography,…